12 Jul
Marshal Jacob Frey Retired
Jacob Frey Retired
12 July 1897 in Baltimore Police History my hero Marshal Jacob Frey (Retired) - As reported by the Baltimore Sun - On 12 July 1897, the active connection of Marshal Jacob Frey, with the Police Department ceased. On 7 October 1897, Capt. Samuel T. Hamilton was elected Marshal of Police to succeed Marshal Frey. Marshal Hamilton was a veteran officer of the Civil War and a man of indisputable courage and integrity. For many years following the great civil conflict he had served on the Western frontier and took part in the unremitting campaigns against the Sioux and other Indian tribes, who were constantly waging war upon the settlers and pioneers as they pushed their way toward the setting sun, building towns and railroads and trying to conquer the wilderness and its natural dwellers.
In the Sioux campaign of 1876, when Gen. George A. Custer and his gallant command, outnumbered ten to one by the Indians in the valley of the Little Big Horn, were annihilated, Captain Hamilton and his troop rode day, and night in a vain effort to re-enforce Custer and his sorely pressed men. It was on 26 June 1876, the Seventh United States Cavalry rode and fought to their deaths, and on 27 June 1876 the day following, the reinforcements arrived, exhausted from their terrific ride across the country. Captain Hamilton and his troop fought through the rest of the campaign, which resulted in Sitting Bull, the great Indian war chief, being driven across the US Borders into the Canadian frontier. It would be more than 20 years after fighting Sitting Bull that Hamilton would come to Baltimore and become the successor to Marshal Jacob Frey, Frey himself was no slouch, having led Baltimore Police into riots the same he himself went into battle against Indians while helping to lead America to the Western Frontier.
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