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Excerpt from Address of Maj.-Gen. John A. Dix, at the Reception by the Seventh Regiment, National Guard, S. N. Y., Of Its Members Who Have Served in the Army and Navy of the United States During the Great Rebellion: Academy of Music, January 31, 1866 In the early spring of 1862, when the Army of the Potoo mac was lying before Richmond, when Washington and Bal timore and the adjacent country were almost denuded of troops, and there were well-grounded apprehensions of a rebel raid from the Valley of the Shenandoah, you volunteered your services a second time. I was in command at Baltimore when you arrived there with your gallant companions, the Twenty second, the Thirty-seventh, the Sixty-ninth, the Seventy-first, and, I believe, some other New York regiments whose num bers I cannot at this moment recollect. You were detained at Baltimore by the Government at my special request; and dur ing a large portion of this term of your service you occupied the post of honor - Federal Hill - that remarkable promontory rising up in the heart of the city, and seeming to be placed there by nature as a site for a citadel. When you occupied it, it was crowned by a fort, as you see it before you (pointing to a painting representing it), built in the summer of 1861, to protect the city from external attack, and, in case of need, to defend it against itself. Happily, the unshaken loyalty of the Baltimoreans, through all trials and temptations, rendered the latter service unnecessary. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, re