30 MARYLAND.

Carolina, 5,929—and some of the remaining
states, not one thousand men. The total number
in actual service during|the war, officially report-
ed; from Virginia, 71,254; New York, 58,367;
Maryland, 42,636; Tennessee, 22062; Penn-
sylvania, 21,926—and the remaining states not
so numerous. From this, it appears, that the
state of Maryland furnished considerably more
men, according to her population,than any other
state in the Union.

The patriotism of the state was not evinced
alone by the number of men furnished in ac-
tual service, during the war. The funds of the
state were appropriated from time to time, to
sustain expenses which the national treasury
could then illy meet. The actual capital of the
state was impaired by those advances to an ex-
tent, which it has not yet recovered. The call
of government for loans were met with greater
promptitude, and to greater amounts by the citi-
zens of Maryland, than by those of any other
state in the Union in proportion to their capital.

The number of private armed vessels fitted
out from this state, to annoy the shipping of the
enemy, was probably greater, than from any
other state. It might be considered invidious to
assert, that they were more dreaded by the ene-
my, and that they done more damage to their
commerce, than those from any other state of
the Union; but certain it is, that the "Baltimore
dippers." became proverbial for activity, gal-
lantry and success. Mr. Niles, who paid much