. Baltimore : its history and its people . in heard the roar of artillery. He stood on the side-walk in Hagerstown and saw Lees victorious and magnificent army passthrough in an almost interminable line to Gettysburg. He saw the samearmy return defeated and defiantly intrench itself with its face to the foeand its back to the swollen river which it could not pass. He, however,almost unnoticed, was around Meades headquarters, with a boys curiosityto know what was going on while that general was deciding whether or notto attack Lee. He saw McCaulslands raid and many more raids and with aboys hee
. Baltimore : its history and its people . in heard the roar of artillery. He stood on the side-walk in Hagerstown and saw Lees victorious and magnificent army passthrough in an almost interminable line to Gettysburg. He saw the samearmy return defeated and defiantly intrench itself with its face to the foeand its back to the swollen river which it could not pass. He, however,almost unnoticed, was around Meades headquarters, with a boys curiosityto know what was going on while that general was deciding whether or notto attack Lee. He saw McCaulslands raid and many more raids and with aboys heedlessness took risks that more than once brought him face to facewith death, and he played many pranks with the soldiers, who were con-stantly in Hagerstown. His first employment was in the iron foundry and machine shops ofCarver & Flannagan in Hagerstown, and there he worked until 1872 whenhe was twenty-two years of age, when he removed to Baltimore and obtainedemployment in the Mount Clare shops of the Baltimore & Ohio
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