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and a trumpet or a bugle sets my blood to run in faster currents."

An account of this trip appears in the Philadelphia Palladium:

"The First Baltimore Light Infantry Company, Captain Latrobe, about ninety strong, landed from the steamboat at Chestnut street wharf, on the morning of Tuesday, the first day of May. They were royally entertained; reviewed by General Cadwallader, and were banqueted in high style. The standard of the Light Infantry was presented to them by Col. John Eager Howard. Thus has terminated the visit of the Baltimore Light Infantry, a visit that has done much to beget a noble and kind feeling and bring nearer together the citizens of Baltimore and Philadelphia."

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On May 10, 1827, Mr. Latrobe wrote a letter to Lieut. Thomas Barrett, "Baltimore Light Infantry," the National Guards, thanking them for the resolutions sent to him and accepting the honorary membership conferred. He resigned from this organization in 1827. He says that for six years he had been actively engaged as a member of the Militia, but that he finds that he will not be able to continue to take interest in military matters, and will not again join a Company, unless there is war, or danger of war. This resolution was not kept, for on October 12, 1835, we find the command of a regiment of volunteer infantry offered to him in Baltimore; the committee tendering him the command was composed of James M. Anderson, James E. Stewart and A. W. Thompson. This he declined, but he must have subsequently accepted a position, because on October 7, 1840, we find the following:

MONUMENT TO KOSCIUSZKO

At the Military Academy, West Point, designed by John H. B. Latrobe

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