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Confederate authorities. It is not within the province of this paper to give the
brilliant history and record of these organizations. With the exception of the Third
Maryland Artillery, which served with distinguished honor with the army in the
West, it,is enough to say the history of the Army of Northern Virginia cannot be
written without giving the history of these commands of the Maryland Line. From
the early days of the war — from Manassas to Malvern Hill, from the Valley to
Gettysburg, from the defense of Petersburg to Appomattox — was their valor
and efficiency conspicuous. The general orders and reports of the various com-
manders under whom they served — Johnston, Jackson, Ewell, Stuart. Fitz Lee,
Hampton, and the illustrious General Robert E. Lee — are uniform in their praise
as soldiers, worthy successors of the "Maccaronies," who, under Smallwood and
Gist, on Long Island, held back the British advance and made such heroic sacri-
fices, while Washington was enabled to withdraw in safety, or of the Conti-
nentals, who, with DeKalb at Camden, preserved the honor of the American arms,
or who, under Williams and Howard, made possible the after successes of Greene
in the Southern campaign.

From the beginning at Harper's Ferry, in 1861, to the end at Appomattox, in
1865, they maintained the same high character and bearing, and the record of their
deeds, the reputation of their commanders — of Elzey, Steuart, Johnson, Herbert,
Ridgely Brown, Gilmor, Andrews and William Brown — are held in veneration
and affection by all familiar with the military history of the Confederacy, and
have made for Maryland a name equal, if not above other names, in the admira-
tion of a heroic people.

The State of Maryland can well be proud of its sons of the Maryland Line of
1861-1865, as it has always been of their forefathers of the Revolution and the
subsequent wars of 1812 and with Mexico; and it is but fitting that this feeling
of satisfaction should take sensible form in providing for its survivors who. out-
living- the times of their heroic effort, have at last been made to fall victims of the
relentless advances of increasing years and dire poverty, or. perhaps, disabled by
wounds received in battle. An honorable, brave people are never forgetful of their
veteran soldiers, and the fact that the Federal Government has so generously
provided for those of her sons who wore the blue, but makes more pronounced the
obligation of our Mother State to care for their unfortunate brothers who, in
ragged gray jackets, represented her in the Confederacy, and, to their honor be it
said, in this pious purpose the Union citizens of the State have been willing and
earnest in their co-operation.

Sad, indeed, was the heart of the poor Maryland Confederate, after the days
of Appomattox — the cause to which he had devoted his best years, and for which
he had so freely risked his life and shed his blood, had failed — as the tearful
good-bye was spoken to his associates, memories of the comrades who had yielded