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'''Ishmael Day''' (March 20, 1792 – December 27, 1873) was a supporter of the [[United States|Union]] during the [[American Civil War]] who made a famous stand against [[Confederate States of America|Confederate]] raiders attempting to remove the [[Flag of the United States|Union flag]] outside his property. Day is remembered in poems and ballads of the Civil War era.
Born on March 20, 1792 in Baltimore County and Christened 16 JUN 1793 at Saint James Protestant Episcopal Parish, Baltimore, Maryland. Ishmael Day was the son of Edward and Mary Day in the 11th District of [[Baltimore County]] in [[Maryland]]. His birthplace was off of the current Mount Vista Road. He was married to Charity Johnson on March 21, 1822 at the St Johns Parish Protestant Episcopal, in [[Kingsville, Maryland]] in [[Baltimore County]], [[Maryland]] which still stands and is in use as of 2007. Charity Johnson Day died in 1846 and he married again to Ann E. Day which died in 1868 at 63 years of age. Ishmael Day died December 27, 1873. Buried in the same vicinity of Day and his two wives is a Jenny Day which died October 1, 1836 aged 1 year and 10 months which would have been the daughter of Charity Johnson Day. This family is buried at Fork United Methodist Church's cemetery.▼
==Biography==
Little is known of his life, except that during the [[American Civil War]] he was sympathetic to the [[Union Army]] in a neighborhood that had sympathy for the [[Confederate Army]]. His home on Sunshine Avenue in Fork, [[Maryland]] near [[Mount Vista Estates]] and the intersection of [[Harford Road]] was the site of a tragedy on July 11, 1864. When the advance guard for [[Harry Gilmor]]'s raiders was in the area, Ishmael Day placed a large Union flag over his gate. Gilmor's Ordnance Sergeant Eugene Fields told Day to take the flag down. After Day refused, an argument followed and Ishmael Day shot Sgt. Field at close range with a shotgun. Gilmor's men burned Day's home and Day immediately fled- hiding under a cider press for days until the passing troops were gone. The mortally wounded Sgt. Field was taken to Wright's Hotel operated by W.O.B. Wright on Harford Road accompanied by Gilmor where Field later died.▼
▲Born on March 20, 1792, in Baltimore County and
After this incident, Day fled into the nearby fields and hid under a cider press for several days until he could escape into the city of [[Baltimore]]. After a time, he returned and rebuilt his home. Ishmael Day died and is buried in the cemetery of Fork United [[Methodist]] Church in Fork, Maryland. ▼
Day freed his slave woman, Eliza, in 1846, declaring in the manumission document that he lived "under a Republican Government & believing as I most sincerely do that all the Human Race without respect to sex or Coulour (''sic'') should & ought to be free."<ref>Christopher Phillips, ''Freedom's Port: The African American Community of Baltimore, 1790-1860'', page 257, University of Illinois Press, 1997 {{ISBN|0252066189}}</ref>
▲Little is known of his life, except that during the [[American Civil War]] he was sympathetic to the [[Union Army]] in a neighborhood that had sympathy for the [[Confederate Army]]. His home on Sunshine Avenue in [[Fork,
▲After this incident, Day fled into the nearby fields and hid under a cider press for several days until he could escape into the city of [[Baltimore]]. After a time, he returned and rebuilt his home. Ishmael Day
==Legacy==
The State Convention of Maryland, formed to construct a new constitution, formally ordered that Day be thanked for his actions.<ref>''Proceedings of the State Convention of Maryland to Frame a New Constitution'', page 256, Annapolis: Richard P. Bayley, 1864 {{OCLC|3160062}}.</ref>
Day is remembered in the poem ''The Patriot Ishmael Day'' by William H. Hayward and the anonymous ''Ballad of Ishmael Day''. There is also a modern fictional account of his life by William R. Bell.
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Image:Ishmael Day House HistMkr.jpg|Maryland Marker commemorating the event
Image:Ishmael Day Stone.jpg|Ishmael Day's marker
</gallery>
==References==
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*William R. Bell, ''My Flag My Country: The Ishmael Day Story'', CreateSpace, 2012 {{ISBN|1470186691}}.
*Ishmael Day, ''Some of the Acts and Doings of Ishmael Day: Since the Breaking Out of the Rebellion'', Ishmael Day, 1865 {{OCLC|43409606}}.
*William H. Hayward, "The patriot Ishmael Day", in ''"Words for the Hour": A New Anthology of American Civil War Poetry'', pages 144–148, University of Massachusetts Press, 2005 {{ISBN|1558495096}}.
*"The ballad of Ishamel Day" in ''One Hundred Choice Selections in Poetry and Prose'', pages 164–165, P. Garrett & Company, 1868 {{OCLC|681269455}}.
*"File XVIII:The Ishmael Day episode" in Henry Bascom Smith, [https://archive.org/stream/betweentheliness24541gut/pg24541.txt ''Between the Lines: Secret Service Stories Told Fifty Years After''], pages 138–148, Booz Brothers, 1911 {{ISBN|1613107250}} {{OCLC|4453729}}.
*[https://www.nytimes.com/1864/07/17/news/ishmael-day-the-old-loyalist-who-shot-a-rebel.html "Ishmael Day, the Old Loyalist who Shot a Rebel"], ''The New York Times'', 17 July 1864.
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[[Category:People from Baltimore County, Maryland]]
[[Category:People of Maryland in the American Civil War]]
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