http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Baltimore_riot_of_1861

Abraham Lincoln received only 1,100 of more than 30,000 votes cast for president in 1860. One regiment of newly called up Union troops came through Baltimore; however, anti-Union forces were too disorganized and surprised to do anything about it. When the next regiment came on April 19, however, they were ready.

On April 19, the Union's Sixth Massachusetts Regiment[3] was traveling south to Washington, D.C. through Baltimore. At that time, there was no direct rail connection between the Philadelphia, Wilmington and Baltimore Railroad's President Street Station and the Baltimore and Ohio Railroad's Camden Station (ten blocks to the west) due to ordinances prohibiting the use of steam locomotives in the inner city and the lack of union stations at the time. Rail cars that transferred between the two stations had to be pulled by horses along Pratt Street.

As the regiment transferred between stations, a mob of secessionists and Southern sympathizers attacked the train cars and blocked the route. When it became apparent that they could travel by horse no further, the troops got out of the cars and marched in formation through the city. However, the mob followed the soldiers, breaking store windows and causing damage until they finally blocked the soldiers. The mob began throwing paving stones and bricks at the troops. Panicked by the situation, several soldiers fired into the mob, and chaos immediately ensued as a giant brawl began between the soldiers, the violent mob, and the Baltimore police. In the end, the soldiers got to the Camden Station, and the police were able to block the crowd from them. The regiment had left behind much of their equipment, including their marching band's instruments.

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Lincoln rerouted troops through Union-friendly Annapolis at first. Once enough troops had made it to Washington, D.C. to defend the capital, Lincoln resolved to end the problems in Baltimore and restore the rail connection. 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.

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Lincoln rerouted troops through Union-friendly Annapolis at first. Once enough troops had made it to Washington, D.C. to defend the capital, Lincoln resolved to end the problems in Baltimore and restore the rail connection. 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.

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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. 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."

In 1939, that became Maryland's official state song.

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And it still is.

(sung to the jolly old tune of "Oh Tannenbaum")

Your information is out of date.

The company now knows as CBS is the company formerly known as Westinghouse.

The story is complicated.

Briefly: Westinghouse bought CBS, changed its named to CBS, and sold most of its non-broadcast businesses. They even sold the rights to the name, "Westinghouse", so there's still a Westinghouse Electric Company (owned by Toshiba, for now.)

But CBS is no longer a subsidiary of Westinghouse or of Toshiba.

It's actually much more complicated than that - - I've probably oversimplified.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Category:Former_CBS_Corporation_subsidiaries

(*) unless she pulls a Brett Favre move (*)

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Just before retiring (*) from blogging, hilzoy points out that Chuck Todd was not only opining in ways contrary to the opinions of most commenters here, but also . . .

. . . Chuck Todd was justifying his opinions by citing "facts" that aren't.

Chuck Todd doesn't give the impression to me of being stupid or lazy, so if he's not learning the basic facts about the biggest political stories of the past couple of years, then it must be because he's part of a culture (the Beltway media culture) in which facts aren't paramount.

hilzoy:

http://washingtonmonthly.com/archives/individual/2009_07/019126.php

[...] In the podcast with Glenn, Chuck Todd makes (by my count) plain errors on five important factual questions. He is wrong about the kind of prosecutor under consideration, he is wrong to think that what Holder is proposing to investigate is interrogations that conform to Yoo's legal opinions, he is wrong about the duties of Justice Department lawyers, he was wrong about the legal status of firing the US Attorneys, and he was wrong about the state of American public opinion. And those are just the plain, obvious errors: I'm not counting things like his claim that prosecutions would harm our image abroad, or that there's a serious debate about whether Yoo's memos were defensible.

That's a lot of factual mistakes for one short podcast -- enough to make me think that Chuck Todd is not as concerned as he ought to be about getting it right. If he were, and if he could bring some of his colleagues along, we might not have to worry nearly as much about politicization.

We should expect more of our journalists. They need to get the facts right.

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- - hilzoy, Friday, July 17, 2009

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And that's the way it is.

Bon voyage, hilzoy.

Yes, the golden age of TV news wasn't golden and anyway isn't coming back again.

If I live long enough then I'm sure I'll eventually encounter somebody praising the golden age of blogging, and I'll say, "feh!"