<P> It is my solemn duty to inform you that it is not possible for more soldiers to pass through Baltimore unless they fight their way at every step . I therefore hope and trust and most earnestly request that no more troops be permitted or ordered by the Government to pass through the city . If they should attempt it, the responsibility for the bloodshed will not rest upon me . </P> <P> Hearing no immediate reply from Washington, on the evening of April 19 Governor Hicks and Mayor Brown ordered the destruction of railroad bridges leading into the city from the North, preventing further incursions by Union soldiers . The destruction was accomplished the next day . One of the men involved in this destruction would be arrested for it in May without recourse to habeas corpus, leading to the ex parte Merryman ruling . For a time it looked as if Maryland was one provocation away from joining the rebels, but Lincoln moved swiftly to defuse the situation, promising that the troops were needed purely to defend Washington, not to attack the South . President Lincoln also complied with the request to reroute troops to Annapolis, as the political situation in Baltimore remained highly volatile . Meanwhile, General Winfield Scott, who was in charge of military operations in Maryland indicated in correspondence with the head of Pennsylvania troops that the route through Baltimore would resume once sufficient troops were available to secure Baltimore . </P> <P> Despite some popular support for the cause of the Confederate States of America, Maryland would not secede during the Civil War . However, a number of leading citizens, including physician and slaveholder Richard Sprigg Steuart, placed considerable pressure on Governor Hicks to summon the state Legislature to vote on secession, following Hicks to Annapolis with a number of fellow citizens: </P> <P> to insist on his (Hicks) issuing his proclamation for the Legislature to convene, believing that this body (and not himself and his party) should decide the fate of our state...if the Governor and his party continued to refuse this demand that it would be necessary to depose him . </P>

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