The midland journal. (Rising Sun, Md.) 1885-1947, 1911-08-11
WAR DAYS IN CECIL.
Communicated.

communicated.
Incidents, experiences and observations ever
may differ from view points between dates
81 to '65-tho perfect etching of your leaf EN-
powered hamlet, near the Line remain OF
war days. AS CARRIED in Quaker guise of sim
plicity, and writ in Thee and Thou or linn
ned by the brush of an a artist exact of orb on
creaking sign, near inn; fancy the dead lpstel
and beam of orb thereon, after the boom OF
ordnance out Sumpter way-'61
The tense, oppressive condition agog, ,waxed
in nervous tensity day by day, and dark for
boding fear stalked abroad through wartimes
in Cecil.
That lyric melody" Maryland Ny Mary
land" coursed grandly from Potomacs sheen
to Mason and Dixon's, neck to neck with
Dixie till Gov. Hicks put blinds on the
''critter.''
Genl Buffers ruling 'Contrabands OF
War;" sealed the underground railway for
Cecil ever after. AS quaked the inevitable
crises, SO came the rural Quakers to have
qualms of scruples, also the village postmaster
to be the purveyor of news from the Front.
Down at the rivers brink, the ION to Rich
mond East" found passage through Cecil
thereafter. Fifty long abiding years ago, the
far cry of nation appealing for aid, the
magnitude Of which the executive officials
then mistook, tho Cecil responded nobly. :
Classic be the song and story of the deeds
mere boys essayed on land and sea; yet, more
Homeric still are those faded and hidden
letters home from the lad in his grave-'un
known" Shows Battery, the near representa-
tive Cecil command finds first mention OF
Cecil volunteer Co.'s B, E, G and H, 9th Md.
refers you to Garfield Post, G. A. r., for the
history of that command in detail.
The State Bounty Act, expeded by Barclay
Reynolds, Esq, took place at Harper's Ferry
in '62 where the 9Th Md, was then quartered
Elkton's quote to the Lost Cause" failed tc
connect then. Delaware and Pennsylvania
both enrolled the eager first, and Cecil lost
valuable aid thereby. Harking perspective
to our long, last lingering gaze on Rising Sun
Sept. 5, ~, that wartime view ever appears
enshrined in lurid luminosity from shot and
shell. Illuminated for crisis once endured by
generation now on the wane By the Ope
quan's pellucid flow, as pulsing to the heart
throbs of two Cecil boys, gasping to stay theil
hearts blood to voice messages to mothers
only to be forever shunted in death, is but
one of many scenes in passing.
By the same token we essay afield for the
and field. Crisp, cracking currency, so very
ideal for poker, or the recruits on pontoon; 6
pack mule with legs encased in the uniform
breaches U. S. A., never failed to delightfully."-
meet the quibs of the funny fellows. Private
Pat Freeny, got report, present or accounted
for obligingly Oft by orderly sergeant wher
shuffiing greasy deck or spreading the cur
rency before like leaves of valambrosia.
Sergeant Burlington, of Cecil, holds the con
gressional medal awarded as first to scale
works at Petersburg, March 25, IS.
"On to Richmond" no longer then the war
time slogan, for at Appomatox the shout. ol
glad acclaim voiced Peace be Still" Post
bellum days, hooped feminity, ''Rudd's rec
water brew and pcnics in grove, proved ths
very antithesis of tented fields galore
Home-for years to drop thro' the palm Of
ages, with rosary-like speed came the remain
ing few survivors of the crisis-'6l to 49,
GEO. II. TAYLOR,
9Th Maryland.