The Daily Dispatch: November 3, 1862., [Electronic resource]

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An "Uprising" in Baltimore.

A strange ‘"uprising"’ took place in Baltimore on Wednesday. For several days a movement had been progressing among the Unionists of Baltimore, headed by the clerk of the Criminal Court, and an aid of Governor Bradford, for holding a meeting to ask the removal of General Wool from his command of Fort McHenry. On Wednesday the meeting was held, and the petition drawn up to that effect, in which the word ‘"senility"’ was used in connection with the General. That officer immediately ordered the arrest and confinement of all the prime movers in the meeting. This created great excitement among their compatriots, and a large crowd waited on the victims and serenaded them. The prime movers were then sent off in a boat, and thus put out of reach of further serenades. Gen. Wool immediately afterwards left for Washington, and was followed by a committee of Unionists with the petition for his removal. It is said General Wool has intimated his intention to resign if the Administration removes him.

Dr. Covert, of Charleston, B.C., from whom we obtain these facts, and who came through on the flag of truce boat last night, says that Gen. Wool will, while enforcing the rules relative to prisoners of war, treat all such with courtesy and consideration.