Template:On this day/March 15

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March 15:

• 1861 – Seven students raised a flag of the Confederate States of America on the dome of the Rotunda. In a letter to the editors of The Daily Exchange, students wrote that "the spirit of Secession is rampant here." A daily newspaper published in Baltimore, Maryland, from 1858 to 1861, it backed John C. Breckinridge in the 1860 presidential election and supported states' rights, although not secession. Because of its anti-Lincoln administration views during the Civil War, the newspaper was suppressed by the government. On September 10, 1861, the federal government banned the Exchange from the mail and soon thereafter arrested the owners and editors.