l suffering under the murderous fire of the Peiho forts in China.
Blood is thicker than water was the grand sentiment of the grand sailor, as he hurried to the rescue of the sufferers of his own race and blood.
These things don't pay; nevertheless, it would be a cold, miserable, selfish world without them.
Maryland had no reason to suppose that her sons had degenerated from the days of Otho Williams, John Eager Howard, and William Smallwood, when the Mexican war brought out such men as Ringgold, the first organizer of horse artillery; Ridgely, his dashing successor; and Charley May, the hero of the cavalry charge upon the Mexican battery.
Coming down to the Civil War, the President on the Union side was a Southern-born man, his successor was born in North Carolina, and the commanding General, who first organized his troops, was a Virginian.
His great War Secretary, the Carnot of that day, was born in Edgecombe county, North Carolina, though he would never admit it.