 The decision was filed in the U.S.Circuit Court for Maryland by Chief Justice Roger Brooke Taney, a Marylander from Frederick (and sometimes in Baltimore) and former protege of seventh President Andrew Jackson who had appointed him two decades earlier.The first fatalities of the war happened during the Baltimore Civil War Riots of Thursday/Friday, April 18-19, 1861, on the waterfront piers adjacent to Pratt and President Street, between the President Street Station and the Camden Street Station.