Maryland; stories of her people and of her history . A PIECE OF CONFEDERATE PAPER MONEY kissed the ground. Then all at once the bands began toplay Maryland; My Maryland. The soldiers sang untilthe air rang with it. The army marched on to Frederick. Everyone wasexcited. The soldiers were orderly and well the food and clothing and supplies that he took Gen-eral Lee paid for—in Confederate paper money. Of 208 NORTH AND SOUTH course, after the war this money was worthless. But thepeople in Western Maryland were, for the most part, forthe Union and against slavery. So General Lee did no
Maryland; stories of her people and of her history . A PIECE OF CONFEDERATE PAPER MONEY kissed the ground. Then all at once the bands began toplay Maryland; My Maryland. The soldiers sang untilthe air rang with it. The army marched on to Frederick. Everyone wasexcited. The soldiers were orderly and well the food and clothing and supplies that he took Gen-eral Lee paid for—in Confederate paper money. Of 208 NORTH AND SOUTH course, after the war this money was worthless. But thepeople in Western Maryland were, for the most part, forthe Union and against slavery. So General Lee did notsucceed in getting many supplies. In the meantime the Union army was marching tomeet the Confederates. They met and fought at SouthMountain and at. Antietam. TheC onfe deratearmy was de-feated and thefirst invasion ofMaryland endedwith Lees re-treat into Vir-ginia. The battle ofAntietam (Sep-tember 17,1862,)was one of theseverest of thewar. One hun-dred and fifty thousand men were engaged in it on bothsides, and the loss was more than twenty-five visitor to the field soon after the battle says, Wereached a wood, every tree pierced with shot or cut withbullets, and came to the little brick Bunker church on theturnpike. ... A hundred round shot have pierced its
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