...ted by a carved eagle holding thunderbolts in its talons, and an olive-branch in its beak. On the polished black-walnut staff was a silver plate, bearing an engraving of the arms of Maryland and of Massachusetts , and the words, Maryland to Massachusetts, April 19, 1865. May the Union and friendship of the future obliterate the Anguish of the past. This was the crowning evidence of the sorrow of true Mar...