May 14, 1861
A Chronological History of the Civil War in America1
- A schooner loaded with arms seized at Baltimore; arms seized in other parts of the city. Ross Winans arrested.2
- St. Louis and Memphis mail contract annulled, and mails stopped.
- Gun-boat “Quaker City” captured ship “Argo” with $150,000 worth of tobacco.
- A Chronological History of the Civil War in America by Richard Swainson Fisher, New York, Johnson and Ward, 1863
- His outspoken anti-federal stance as a member of the Maryland House of Delegates, the lower chamber of the General Assembly, (state legislature) led to his temporary arrest on May 14, 1861. At the time of his arrest, Winans was returning on a Baltimore and Ohio Railroad train from an early session of the legislature that was being held in the western Maryland town of Frederic.