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 in 1814, ending in a British defeat. The Star Spangled Banner was written under patriotic fervor. and stress, by Francis Scott Key, from the bow of a British ship, where he was held as a prisoner, as through the mist of the early morning (September 14th he descried the flag above the fort.

The Centennial Celebration of these great events will occur in Baltimore in 19 14, during which it is purposed to have the Annual Reunion of the United Confederate Veterans held in Baltimore.

MANY GENERALS STILL SURVIVE.

Companion List From Federal Army to That of Confederacy,Recently Published.

(See Ante, page 156.

General Marcus J. Wright, who has been engaged in compiling records of the Confederacy, reports from his search of available records, that President Davis appointed to the Confederate 425 general officers of all grades, of whom one lieutenant-general, four major-generals and twenty-two brigadier-generals are living. The names of the surviving officers recently appeared in the Times-Dispatch.

A recent statement from Brevet Brigadier-General A. B. Nettleton shows that President Lincoln appointed 131 major-generals and 549 brigadier-generals, of whom the following named are living:

Major-Generals—Grenville M. Dodge, age seventy-nine years, Council Bluffs, la.; Nelson A. Miles, age seventy-one years, 1736 N Street, Northwest, Washington, D. C.; Daniel E. Sickles, age eighty-four years, 25 Fifth Avenue, New York City; Julius Stahel, age eighty-four years, Hoffman House, New York City.