Northern Duty Southern Heart

<p> 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.</p>