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| 141 H. Stewart and staff; Company C, First Maryland Cavalry, commanded by Colonel B. Carter Smith; the Maryland Line, commanded by Captain George W. Booth, and the Society of the Army and JN"avy. At the monument, prayer was offered by Rev. Randolph McKim, and the oration was made by Captain George Thomas, of St. Mary's County, a Confederate veteran. The monument was the first Confederate one erected at Gettysburg. Since the death of Brigadier-General Herbert, the command of the State militia had devolved upon Colonel Stewart Brown. On March 4, 1887, he was elected to the office, and the command of the regiment passed to the Lieutenant-Colonel, Charles B. Gaither. The brigade electors were Colonel H. Kyd Douglas, of Hagerstown, commanding the First Regiment; Lieutenant-Colonel H. A. Barry, of the Baltimore Light Infantry; Lieutenant-Colonel E. H. Ward well, of the Second Battalion, and Colonel Brown as commander of the Fifth. McDonald, Johnson, Johnson, Tinsley, Nagel, Gilner, Byrne. A GEOUP PROM COMPANY «, 1898. |