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 (many) Jenkins, (several) Keys, (several) Knox, (2) Latrobes, (3) Lairds, (2) Murrays, (5) McKims, (2) Mackalls, (3) Macgills, (3) McNulty, Markoe, Morfits, (3) Maguires, (3) Nicholas, Owen, (2) Pearre, Post, Pitts, Peters, (4) Robertson, Ritter, Rowan, Rasin, Smiths, (numerous) Snowdens, (several) Stuarts, Sullivane, Steward, (several) Sollers, (2) Thomases, (numerous Tilghmans, (several) Torsch, Whites, (several) War-fields, (several) Wards, (2) Wheelers, (2) Wise, Wheatley, Young, Yellott, Zollingers, and a host of others, regardless of rank, among Maryland's (say) 22,000 enrolled in the Confederate States Army, Navy and service.

"Unheralded, unorganized, unarmed," defying capture and penalty; they came, they fought, they suffered, they died: For conscience and right!

Lee said to Trimble: "The Marylanders are unrivalled soldiers." A. P. Hill and Heth (in 1865) said: "Those Maryland men do not desert." Munford said: "You struck the first blow in Baltimore and the last in Virginia." Jackson, Johnston and Ewell relied upon them and were not disappointed. They were "yours to count on" with Stuart, Hampton, Fitz Lee, Ashby, Mosby, Pelham, et ah, and they knew it and responded accordingly, as did their prototypes of the Revolution, under Washington, Howard, Gist and other commanders.

"There's Life in the Old Land Yet!" wrote the poet-soldier, Randall, following his "Maryland."

What with authors of war lyrics—inspiring, inspiriting, true, world-famed and ineffaceable—in Francis Scott Key, James Ryder Randall and Dr. John Williamson Palmer, Baltimore outranks the world's cities.

As a national anthem, the "Star Spangled Banner" is unrivalled; while "Maryland, My Maryland"—drastic of patriotic fare and arrogant of mettle and defiance—is second only to Key's famed ballad; and Dr. Palmer's "Stonewall Jackson's Way" best pictures America's most brilliant, meteorlike, fighting, soldier-saint—Illustrious Lee's right arm!

The entertainment, as announced, was held in the armory of the Xaval Brigade, Marvland National Guard.