President Street Station (1856)

ID: 802 ~ Source: Library of Congress Prints and Photographs Division HAER MD,4-BALT,25--1 ~ Creator: D.C. Baxter ~ Date: 1856
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President Street Station (1856)

Engraving of the President Street Station.

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By Eli Pousson
On April 19, 1861, just one week after the attack on Fort Sumter by Confederate forces marked the beginning of the Civil War, a train carrying Union volunteers with the Sixth Massachusetts Regiment pulled into the Philadelphia, Wilmington and…