When Col. Brown and his brave little army overtook General Wallace, the latter was much affected. He embraced him, the tears starting from his eyes, and said, “Colonel, I never expected to see you again.” General Grant in his report says “they saved Washington.” The 149th in this engagement lost 130 men in killed, wounded and prisoners. The performance of the hundred days men was a revelation to the old soldiers, and a surprise to the enemy. They did not know when they were whipped. Everywhere their duty was well performed. On the long forced marches, sometimes hundreds of miles with insufficient rations, suffering from thirst, tramping the dusty roads with blistered feet, it was all done and suffered by the men cheerfully, and as well as by the veterans of long service. I heard one of the men of the 19th Corps say, “We have served for three years but have never seen campaigning like this.” Gen. Tyler in his official report of the battle of Monocacy says: “It seldom falls to the lot of veterans to be more tried than was the Ohio National Guard at the stone bridge, and none ever carried out trying and hazardous orders better, or with more determined spirit than did the 149th Ohio, and the men associated with it.” The enemy had seized the time when Grant had depleted the defensive forces of the Capitol, to endeavor to capture Washington. Early charged up to the very boundary of the city expecting to find the rich prize an easy prey, but the stubborn resistance of the Guard at Monocacy and their vigilance in the forts at Washington were more than a match for all the vaunted dash and daring of his veterans, and he was compelled to retire before the raw Militia of the Buckeye State. This was a source of deep humiliation to the dashing Rebel General which he never got over to the day of his death. Whether the hundred days man was on the alert in the entrenchments of the capital, battling at the front with the veteran forces of the Confederacy or skirmishing on the lines of supply with the wary foe in the rugged passes of the Alleghanies, they were each in his place doing their duty manfully toward the great and final victory which came a few months later. Lincoln and Grant both said that the services of the hundred days men shortened the war, and, that the President appreciated their service was shown by his issuing a special card of thanks, a copy of which was sent to every man in this service. This was a special favor from the hand of our great war President, that no other troops received, and one of which we can well be proud. It was a tribute to bravery from the great, noble heart of the kindest soul that ever lived on earth. Gen. J. B. Gordon of the Confederate army whose division was with Early in the fight at Monocacy, says: