Text: Anonymous, “La Fayette's Visit to Baltimore,” Niles’ Weekly Register (Baltimore, MD), third series, vol. 3, no. 8 (vol. XXVII, whole no: 694), October 23, 1824

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Grateful remembrance.

After the introduction of the surviving officers and [page 120:] soldiers of the revolution, who reside in and near Baltimore, to general La Fayette on Friday last, he observed to one of the gentlemen near, “I have not seen among these my friendly and patriotic commissary, Mr. David Poe, who resided in Baltimore when I was here, and out of his own very limited means supplied me with five hundred dollars to aid in clothing my troops, and whose wife, with her own hands, cut out five hundred pair of pantaloons, and superintended the making of them for the use of my men.” The general was informed that Mr. Poe was dead but that his widow was still living. He expressed an anxious wish to see her. The good old lady heard the intelligence with tears of joy, and the next day visited the general, by whom she was received most affectionately; he spoke in grateful terms of the friendly assistance he had received from her and her husband: “your husband,” said he, pressing his hand on his breast, “was my friend, and the aid I received from you both was greatly beneficial to me and my troops.”

The effect of such an interview as this may be imagined but cannot be described.

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