. Book of the Royal blue . ily on until the bridge wascleared and the way opened for the regimentsin the rear. It was only when the bridgewas won, and room obtained to deploy thecolumn, that the old lusty Maryland cheer,which more than eighty years before hadbeen heard at Brandywine, at Guilford andKutaw, rang out on the sulphurous air ofthat dread September day, attesting thatthose who sent it were the legitimate sons ofsires who had fought for freedom and im-mortal fame under Howard and Williams. They were no more forever the despisedPlug Lglies, of Baltimore, but a newMaryland I-ine, indomi


. Book of the Royal blue . ily on until the bridge wascleared and the way opened for the regimentsin the rear. It was only when the bridgewas won, and room obtained to deploy thecolumn, that the old lusty Maryland cheer,which more than eighty years before hadbeen heard at Brandywine, at Guilford andKutaw, rang out on the sulphurous air ofthat dread September day, attesting thatthose who sent it were the legitimate sons ofsires who had fought for freedom and im-mortal fame under Howard and Williams. They were no more forever the despisedPlug Lglies, of Baltimore, but a newMaryland I-ine, indomitable as theold, baptized anew in fire and blood;which had washed away all former trans-gressions. A great deed, says another writer,had been done by these Maryland men—asecond bridge of had been carried; butno Napoleon was there to take advantage ofthr and glorious It will \,T- 10 A CONFEDERATE ULLAGE IN A UNION STATE IN ICAR TIMES. GETTISLIK r\IIfLFltLU Su ^ d a63byi;BCopfUST1 d d By EBCopf EncrHW. A CONFEDERATE VILLAGE IN A UNION STATE JN IIAR TIMES. 11


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