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| 162 defeated Colonel Kane's "Pennsylvania Bucktail Rifles." For this service Major-General Ewell complimented the regiment in general orders, concluding with the words, "authority is given to have one of the captured bucktails appended to the color staff of the First Maryland Regiment." The flag was thereafter carried by the regiment through the remainder of the war. Another historic flag in the procession was that of the First Maryland Cavalry, with the Southern cross, which was carried by that command for three years of the war. James R. Herbert had been in command of the First Maryland Regiment, and had followed the old tattered bucktail flag through the hail of shot and shell, up Gulp's Hill, at Gettysburg. In that terrible charge nearly all the commissioned officers were killed or wounded, and of the 500 men of the regiment who went into this bloody batfle, 300 were left on the field killed or wounded. Among the wounded was Colonel Herbert. The State militia encampment of the summer of 1891 was at Loreley, Md., near Baltimore. The encampment began on July 9, and continued ten days. The order for the encampment required that any company reporting at the camp with less than 75 per cent, of its full strength, should be reported to the brigadier-general commanding, with the view to disbandment. The camp was named " Camp Douglas," in honor of General H. Kyd Douglas, of Hagerstown, and 1,500 men reported for the encampment. They were the First Regiment, under command of Colonel L. Allison Wilmer; the Second Battalion, under command of Lieutenant-Colonel George A. Pearre; the Third and Fourth Battalions, under Lieutenant-Colonels James L. Woolford and Willard Howard, respectively, and the Fifth, commanded by Colonel Boykin. This was a business camp and there was little to divert the men from the regular military duties of drilling, guard-mounting, etc. Captain Samuel T. Hamilton, of the Second United States Cavalry, was there to inspect the troops, and he made a most favorable report of their condition, appearance and drilling. One of the amuse- |