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On May 13, the Union army entered Baltimore, occupied the city, and declared martial law. The mayor, city council, and police commissioner, who were pro-South and seemingly incompetent at maintaining order in the situation, were arrested and imprisoned at Fort McHenry. Meanwhile, the states of Arkansas and Tennessee seceded on May 6. Some Southerners reacted with hostility to the battle; James Ryder Randall, a teacher in Louisiana but a native Marylander who had lost a friend in the riots, wrote "Maryland, My Maryland" for the Southern cause in response to the riots.[13] The poem was later set to music popular in the South, and referred to the riots with lines such as "Avenge the patriotic gore / That flecked the streets of Baltimore." It was not until seventy-eight years later that it became Maryland's state song; there have been efforts to remove it since.

After the occupation of the city, Union troops were garrisoned throughout the state. Several members of the Maryland legislature were arrested, days before a delayed secession vote, and the state was placed under direct federal administration.

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Originally posted by Fremdfirma:
That was also, the very start of my family's long standing feud with the Pinkertons,

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Originally posted by AURaptor:
Any state above NORTH Carolina is considered Northern in my book anyways.

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Originally posted by mal4prez:
You've seen Deadwood, right? They never really got to expand on the frequent references to the Pinkertons...

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