This is sheer fantasy and never happened.
1. These were not "armored trains", but just some cars pulled by horses - which was common in Baltimore.
Trains were not permitted to move through the center of the city, and this ordinance forced connecting passengers to reach the terminal of their departure by some other means. Sometimes, rail cars full of travelers were hitched to a horse and pulled there on rails laid in the streets, and at other times the passengers were left to make their own way to the station.
2. "Armored trains" were never used to quell any unrest during the American Civil War.
3. There was no "armored train" unit formed and then driven off to battle.
4. Benjamin Butler had no association with any "armored train".
https://www.battlefields.org/learn/arti ... -civil-war
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Baltimore_riot_of_1861
https://userpages.umbc.edu/~jamie/html/ ... _riot.html
On April 19, 1861, only five days after the surrender of Fort Sumter, the situation in Baltimore exploded into violence. The 6th Massachusetts Infantry arrived at the President Street Station and began the process of changing trains. The cars were disconnected and pulled by horses down Pratt Street to Camden Station. As the process continued, a crowd gathered and with each moment it became more and more unruly. All but two of the cars had been transferred when the crowd blocked the tracks with timbers and anchors.
The two cars returned to the President Street Station and the soldiers disembarked to the howls and jeers of the mob. The troops then marched back down Pratt Street, led by a man carrying a rebel flag, and followed by the mob. At Gay Street some of the mob began tearing up paving stones and throwing them at the soldiers. Other men were seen brandishing pistols and muskets. Someone fired a shot.
The frightened officers ordered the troops to fire into the crowd. This angered the mob further, and they began to attack the soldiers with considerable ferocity. Citizens threw stones and bricks and fired shots at the soldiers. The soldiers returned the fire. Rioters, soldiers, and innocent bystanders fell dead and wounded. The Mayor bravely attempted to stop the battle without success. Then the police arrived.
Marshal Kane put his policemen between the two groups and escorted the troops to Camden Station, where they boarded the train and left Baltimore. The Pratt Street Riot was over. The riot resulted in the first casualty list of the war. Eight rioters, one innocent bystander and three soldiers were killed, twenty four soldiers and an unknown number of civilians wounded.
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