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 250 Southern Historical Society Papers.

Major Goldsborough wrote for the Record many historical sketches of incidents and engagements, in which Marylanders and Maryland troops were conspicuous. Those war articles, always terse, pictu- resque and spirited, evincing the writer's characteristic zeal and ap- titude, were delightful, and were extensively reproduced in other newspapers. They are unique and nothing to compare with them has ever appeared. Doubtless they will be published in a volume.

Major Goldsborough was the author of The Maryland Line in the Confederate Army, published in 1869. About 1896 he partially re- wrote this volume, but being unable to quite complete it, it was with other help finished and published. While thus engaged, he was en- tertained as a guest at the Maryland Line Confederate Soldiers' Home, Pikesville, Md., the superintendent being Sergeant Wm. H. Pope, of his company, "A," First Maryland Regiment. Still being desirous to do full justice to the Maryland Confederates, he was at his death engaged in gathering materials for a third volume, which it is probable will ultimately appear. With this end in view he spent much of last summer with his brother, Charles E. Goldsborough, at Hunterstown, Pa., near Gettysburg and the battlefield. No one but Major Goldsborough has ever attempted to chronicle completely and historically the deeds and incidents connected with the Maryland Confederates.

The Maryland Line, C. S. A., was created by Act of the Confed- erate Congress, and consisted of infantry, cavalry and artillery, under Colonel Bradley T. Johnson, whom General R. E. Lee declared, with diffuse compliments, most worthy to command Marylanders. A grandson of Colonel Baker Johnson of the " Rebellion " of 1776- '83; he had under him some fifty cousins, and not one conscript or substitute!

" These are my jewels."

The widow of Major Goldsborough was Miss Louise Page, of Vir- ginia, connected with the distinguished Lee and Page families, her father being a cousin of General R. E. Lee.