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Photographer: Allen C. Browne
Taken: January 19, 2018
Caption: Arrest of Traitors in Caroline County
Additional Description: "Late on Sunday evening 16th, the steamer Balloon, under the command of Captain James Tilghman, left the Light Street basin for several ports in Caroline county, for the purpose of arresting a number of treasonable characters, who are known to have combined to injure the Government. …”

If the objective of the Caroline arrests was to intimidate other residents of the Eastern Shore, it was probably successful. All Eastern Shore newspapers ran news accounts, including the Cambridge Herald, above. Close-up of image on marker
Submitted: January 30, 2018, by Allen C. Browne of Silver Spring, Maryland.
Database Locator Identification Number: p414952
File Size: 0.876 Megabytes

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