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However, the longest ride must have an end. Our train pulled into Baltimore at 3 o’clock Sunday morning. As soon as possible Col. Brown reported to General Wallace, and the Regiment was assigned to duty at several points in the city, relieving the 8th N. Y. Heavy Artillery, Col. Porter commanding. Col. Porter with his command, two thousand strong, immediately left for the front, and after six weeks but seven hundred remained, the Col. and all of his staff being killed.

Companies A and F 149th were assigned to Fort No. 1 on the outskirts of Baltimore, Capt. Wm. W. Peabody of Co. A being appointed Garrison Commander.

Between the days of May 4 and 16, 35,982 men, composing forty-one Regiments and one Battalion, were consolidated, organized, mustered, clothed, armed and turned over to the United States military authorities for assignment. The Guard was composed of the most substantial men left in the state, men of every department of trade, and of every profession. Ohio had at that time sent ten per cent of her entire population into the army. What a sacrifice on the altar of the country was this great outburst of patriotism.