MEMORIAL.

To the Honorable,

The General Assembly of Maryland:

Whereas, I represented Cecil county in the Senate of
Maryland, from January, 1860, until the expiration of
four years. And whereas, on the sixteenth day of Septem-
ber, 1861, I was on my way to Frederick city to meet the ad-
journed session of the Legislature there to be convened, on
the 17th of September; when I arrived in Baltimore city I
was met by James McPhail, who informed me that my pres-
ence was required at Fort McHenry. He procured a hack
and an escort, and sent Mr. James W. Maxwell and myself-
to said Fort, where we were introduced to Colonel Morris.
Soon after Mr. George Landing and Mr. Philip Reasin were
brought in. We four had quarters assigned us immediately
over the magazine, where we remained until the morning of
the 18th of September, when General Dix called to see us and
informed us to get ready for an excursion. After we were
ready General Dix escorted us on board of a steam tug, which
carried us to Annapolis, where we were transferred to the old
steamboat Baltimore, and placed under the instruction of Col-
onel Morse, who furnished us with a new escort, and on Sun-
day morning, at four o'clock, the 22d of September, the said
steamer got under way and ran down the bay to Cape Henry,
and continued on eastward to Fort Layfayette, where we ar-
rived at 9 o'clock P. M., September 23d, and were delivered
to Lieutenant Wood, who became our Sergeant-at-Arms, and
kept us in close session until the 30th of October, when he
escorted all of us on a ferry-boat and placed us in charge of a
gentleman, John L. Buell, Second Lieutenant Fourth Infant-
ry, U. S. A. We ran up to Governor's Island, where we
were transferred to the steamboat State of Maine. Here our
numbers increased to about one thousand and fifty, exclusive
of our escort, Sergeant-at-Arms, Door-keepers and Pages.
We left here in the evening, and arrived at the wharf of Fort
Warren on the evening of the 31st of October. On the
morning of the 1st of November we were all marched into
Fort Warren, where we were reviewed by D. Demick, Colo-