March 25, 2012 at The 8 x 10, Bal­ti­more, MD
Moon­al­ice poster by John Mavroudis

Accord­ing to Moon­al­ice leg­end, tonight’s poster by John Mavroudis depicts Lucius Mer­ri­weather Moon­al­ice, an offi­cer in the Union Army dur­ing the War Between the States. On April 19, 1861, the first Union troops arrived here on their way to war. Mary­land was part of the Union, but some here took excep­tion. So they rioted. Sev­eral Union troops and a half dozen civil­ians lost their lives. The gen­er­als in Wash­ing­ton pan­icked, but Gen­eral William But­ler snuck his troops into town dur­ing the night, dug in on Fed­eral Hill and paci­fied pointed the city. That pretty much ended the rebel­lion in Bal­ti­more. His­tory cred­its Butler’s can­nons, but that wasn’t the real story behind the paci­fi­ca­tion of Bal­ti­more. I’ll give you two hints:

- Lucius Meri­wether Moon­al­ice was a farmer from Hum­boldt County
– The paci­fi­ca­tion of Bal­ti­more took place on 4/20

Coin­ci­dence? We think not!

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