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| 146 many other celebrities helped to make the occasion successful. The Fifth and the other Maryland troops returned to Baltimore on Friday night. The Putnam Phalanx of Hartford, Connecticut, in the course of a pleasure excursion, paid a visit to Baltimore on October 7, 1887, and spent the night at the Carrollton Hotel. They were accompanied by a large number of ladies, the whole party numbering 335 persons. They were met at Union Station by two companies of the Fifth, under command of Captains R. P. Brown, TS. Lee Goldsborough and Wm. G. Foster. These companies, with drum and bugle corps, escorted the visitors to their hotel. This was the second visit of the Phalanx to Baltimore. The first one having taken place in the fall of 1860, on the eve of the war. They came to Baltimore then on their way to Washington and Mount Vernon. They brought with them upon that occasion a number of colored servants. These they had to leave in Baltimore, as it was illegal to take them into Virginia. The hospitable reception of 1887 was at once •contrasted with that of 1860. Mr. H. T. Sperry, one of the Connecticut soldiers, said : "Major James A. Land-ford and I are the only members of the Phalanx, now in that body, who in the time of war's excitement visited Baltimore. We are the only ones present who then responded to the roll call. Great is the contrast between now and then. Then Mayor, now Judge George William Brown, detailed 125 policemen to guard us in our hotel." "Twenty years 'til dinner time, Dinner time, Dinner time. Twenty years 'til dinner time, So it seems to me-e-e." |