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Portrait of Luther C. Ladd with the Union flag flying next to his right arm. A couple of tents are visible behind him. The words "Luther C. Ladd, of Alexandria, N. H. was shot in the Baltimore riot, April 19th, 1861, and bled to death on the same day. He was only 17 years of age. - Just before he expired, he exclaimed - 'All hail to the stars and stripes.'" appear just below the image. Ladd was one of four soldiers killed during the Baltimore riot of 1861. The riot occured when mob Confederate sympathizers attacked the Sixth Massachusetts Regiment as it marched between President Street Station and Camden Station. The situation escalated into a riot when panicked soldiers start firing into the mob. The riot was later used by Lincoln as justification for the military occupation of Delaware and Maryland in order to prevent the isolation of the District of Columbia that their secession would have created. |
