lunteers and
others who afterwards constituted the Provisional army of the
Confederate States. But the only body of Confederate States regulars of
which I have the record is that which was raised in Baltimore, and which
covered itself with distinction in some of the toughest fights of the
war.

But it was not only in giving soldiers to the Confederacy that Baltimore
was distinguished. Beyond all else it is memorable for the persecution
to which those who sympathized with the South were subjected. In a
letter written from Baltimore, and published in Quebec, there is a
scathing account of the conduct of the Federal officers in your dear
city. It was reproduced afterwards in _Marginalia_, which was published
in Columbia in 1864. The writer of the letter says:

  “The horrors practiced by the Lincoln Government upon the people of
  that beautiful and refined city, Baltimore, have earned for it the
  name of the Warsaw of America.

  “Men alone are not the only victims of the accursed tyranny, but
  even ladies of rank are similarly situated, their crimes being
  receiving letters from absent husbands and fathers, or wearing red
  and white ribbons on dresses, or having given charity to the widow
  or orphan of some one who died in the Southern army. Against the men
  no charges are made, and the only warrant on which they are held is
  that their names are inscribed by Mr. Lincoln, or Mr. Seward, upon a
  list in the hands of a convicted murderer and burglar.”

  “The prime executioner and minister to the vengeance of Lincoln and
  Seward is of the most abhorrent stamp, and has inaugurated their
  reign of terror in Baltimore only as such a wretch could conceive
  it. This man is a pardoned convict, who, after receiving sentence of
  death for murder and burglary, and having been known to have
  committed six assassinations, was released from prison and made a
  jailer, but was dismissed for misconduct. The ruffian has daily
  interviews with the President, and returns from Washington with a
  fresh list of p