Six Days In April: Lincoln and The Union In Peril
           by Frank B. Marcotte       

         Paperback: 188 pages
         Publisher: Algora Publishing (March 30, 2005)
         Language: English
         ISBN: 0875863132

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ANNOTATION

This is a historical account including first-person views, of the roles played by five men during six crucial days in 1861 who vied to control the communication links to Washington. These events encapsulate the complexity of motives and logistics, and the mixed shifting loyalties, that characterized much of the Civil War"--Provided by publisher.

About the Book

This is the story of the two cities, Baltimore and Washington. It is the story of five men who battled for the state of Maryland, key to the immediate survival of the Union.

Baltimore held Washington incommunicado for six long days, while these five men acted (and failed to act), strategized and maneuvered, turning everything they had into weapons in the battle to control Maryland.

In their hands lay the fate of the Union: Abraham Lincoln, president of the United States; Thomas Hicks, governor of Maryland; George Brown, mayor of Baltimore; George Kane, chief of police of Baltimore; and General Benjamin Butler, in charge of the military force trying to rescue Washington.

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