Heading north, Maryland Transit Association light rail vehicles 5030 and 5037 depart Camden Yards (home of the Baltimore Orioles). In the background is the Baltimore & Ohio's Camden Station, opened in 1857 and closed in the 1980s! (It is now a sports museum.) In February 1861, Abraham Lincoln travelled through Camden Station on his way to Washington D.C. to be inaugurated as President of the United States. News of the Battle of Fort Sumter (beginning the Civil War) first reached Baltimore on April 12, 1861, at the B&O's Camden Station telegraph office and, the following week (on April 19, 1861), Union troops of the 6th Massachusettes Volunteer Regiment traveling south on the B&O barricaded themselves at Camden Station when they were attacked by a mob of Confederate sympathizers in the Pratt Street Riot of 1861. Four soldiers and eleven Baltimoreans were killed, and this is considered the first bloodshed of the Civil War.
