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Marylanders in the military and naval service of the Confederate States.
it is generally estimated in
Maryland that twenty thousand men from that State served in the armies of the
Confederacy.
There are no data by which an approximate estimate can be made of the number furnished, but the above conjecture is reasonable and probable.
It is certain that there was no neighborhood in
Maryland from
Mason and
Dixon's line to the seashore, from which all the young men of the better class did not go to military service in
Virginia, and an examination now will show
Maryland Confederate soldiers still living all over the
State.
Frederick county, which was a Union stronghold, shows a list of over one thousand Confederates.
The
Marylanders were scattered throughout the armies of the
Confederacy.
In
Virginia, in
Georgia, in
Mississippi, in
Arkansas, they were found serving in the ranks of their regiments, or as commissioned officers from captain to brigadier-general.
A large percentage, the majority, of the officers in the army and navy of the
United States from
Maryland, resigned their commissions, and entered the service of the
Confederacy.
Captain Franklin Buchanan, United States navy, became
Admiral Buchanan in the
Confederate service.
He commanded the iron-clad
Virginia when he sank in
Hampton Roads the
Congress and the
Cumberland,--two of the best men-of-war in the navy of the
United States, and was prevented from sinking all transports and gunboats in that anchorage only by the accidental and timely arrival of the
Monitor, a newly invented ironclad, constructed
