Montgomery County sentinel. [volume] (Rockville, Md.) 1855-1974, 1945-05-31

She took as to task because last
soeek THE SENTINEL had Anna
HoyLe dressed IN red, qOhite and
blue, instead of the Confederate
coLors, red 1Ohite and red. We
regret that space does not per-
init as to use the entire history).
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after World War /, the Mary
land U.D.C. wishing to do some
thing to honor the Maryland boys
who served in that war, decided to
give sum of money to Johns Hop
kins and Maryland University as a
loan fund for medical students.
There We're still vacant pages on
my book so l brought it out and
when it was finished, there were
recorded 10000 names and $1,000.
to add from the Ridgely Brown
Chapter. One young man said, 81
am now practicing my profession,
but had it not been for that fund
| would still be picking cotton in
the fields of Georgia."
1--WE loved to do things for the
folks in the Home for Confederate
Women in Baltimore, and they
called the Ridgely Brown Chapter
their blessing. Neither did we for
get the veterans at the home in
Pikesville-we sent them many
boxes of good things.
It was the desire of the chapter
to have Col. Browns body remov-
ed to the Confederate section of
Loudon Park Cemetery in Balti-
more, but his relatives would not
consent. The family burying
ground was grown up in briars and
bushes and his grave could not be
seen, SO our chapter had it cleared
off.
I'm 1924 we placed tablet to
the memory of Col. Brown in the
Rockville Courthouse and above it
hung mis- portrait given by E. l..
Tschiffely. When the new court
house was built, the old one was
cut up into small offices and the
portrait was sent the Maryland
Historical Society in Baltimore.
1--WE had also placed tablet in
the courthouse to the memory of
Col. Gus Dorsey who succeeded
Col Brown as commander of The
First Maryland Calvary. These
tablets were placed in st. Johns
Church, Olney by Mrs. Walter
Mobley, Mrs. Frances Spurrier and
Mrs. Charlotte Farquhar. All three
are cousins of Col. Brown, and at
this time Mrs. Mobley is president
of the Ridgely Brown Chapter. A
memorial window was already in
the church to Mrs. Dorsey and one
to the sister of Col. Brown. They
all look lovely together and we
feel they will be well cared for.
We gave up the idea of marking
the spot where Col. Brown fell and
turned out attention to Red Cross
work for World War l. The first
hospital bed equipment to go from
Frederick County was the joint
work of the Fitzhugh Lee Chapter
U.D.C. and the Ridgely Brown
Chapter. How hard we worked on
those things. We used the best
materials and our very best sew
ing. Oh, the quantities of knitting
and sewing we did for both Red
Cross and the Navy League!
"My mother was a young girl
during the war between the states,
Miss Annie M. Hempstone of Lees
burg, Virginia, who with Mrs.
White, wife of Col. Lige White and
the Misses Ball, crossed the Po-
tomac River to get supplies for the
Maryland boys, who usually stop
ped at her fathers home, when
they joined the Confederates who
were fighting for State rights and
constitutional liberty. After gath
ering much material which they in
tended to make up for the boys,
the girls started for home, but
found the river was picketed by
the Yankees, so they returned to
the home of Mrs. Colt. the mother
of Mrs. White at Colts Mill, near
Dickerson, and secreted their valu-
able possession in cubby holes in
the wall. They were soon arrested,
however, and taken to Carroll Pri-
son in Washington, where they
spent several weeks, but when re-
leased they went back to Mrs. Colts
and found their goods. They were
given pass to cross the river which
was still picketed. Those were the
days of hoop skirts. Mother wove the
red flannel in and out of her hoops
and tied on them the cavalry boots.
She could not sit down in the skiff
in which they crossed the river for
fear the hoops would bob up and
the Yankees would see those ma
terials.
"My father, John Poole Sellman,