Northern Duty, Southern Heart George Proctor Kane’s Civil War
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Northern Duty, Southern Heart George Proctor Kane’s Civil War

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Full Title

Northern Duty, Southern Heart George Proctor Kane\'s Civil War
Author(s)

H. Leon Greene
Edition
ISBN

9781476647951, 9781476689616
Publisher

McFarland
Format

PDF and EPUB

Description

Before the Civil War, George Proctor Kane had been a businessman, thespian, political appointee, philanthropist and militiaman. During the war, as Baltimore’s chief of police, he harbored the divided loyalties familiar to the border states–Southern in his sentiments yet Northern in his allegiances. As the city’s top lawman, he sought to reform Baltimore’s “Mobtown” image. He ensured that President-elect Lincoln, passing through on the way to his inauguration, was not assassinated. He protected Union troops marching to defend Washington, D.C. He was eventually imprisoned as a Southern sympathizer, denied habeas corpus as his captors transferred him from prison to prison. This book recounts Kane’s enigmatic public life before and during the Civil War, his Confederate activities after prison and his return to serve as mayor of Baltimore.

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