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 /25/1861 - "...Thursday morning...we took up our line of march for Washington Junction...We arrived at the Junction early on Friday morning...Squads of fifteen men each were then placed between the Junction and Washington city, to protect the track...Early on Saturday the train picked us up and took us to Washington." - Mancellar F. Roll, **71st New York State Militia**, //New York Daily Herald//, 5/3/1861
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 /13/1861 - "Nearing the Relay House the white tents (116 in number) of the **Sixth Massachusetts Regiment** encampment stick out quite prominently against the sky, perched as they are upon the apex of the commanding bluff at this (western) end of the viaduct. From the eastern face of this bluff two brass barkers (6-pounders) show their teeth from the opening of an earthwork, and are placed so as to rake the bridge and railroad beyond, in the direction of Baltimore, for perhaps a mile....Upon the summit of the hill are two 6-pounders..." - //Evening Star//, 5/13/1861
-/14/1861 - "RELAY HOUSE, May 11, 6 P. M. The **8th regiment of New York Militia**, 1,000 men...are encamped in 80 tents on the heights in the rear of the Relay House.  The **6th regiment, Massachusetts**, are encamped in 108 tents, on a high bluff, half a mile west of the Relay House, and near the railway. The **Boston Light Artillery** are doing service here. They have six pieces, 75 horses, and number 105 men. The first seciton commands the bridge from a prominence; the second is stationed near the railroad, and within a few rods of the Relay House, and commands the railroad and river. The third has not yet been assigned a position." - //Richmond Enquirer//, 5/14/1861
+/14/1861 - "RELAY HOUSE, May 11, 6 P. M. The **8th regiment of New York Militia**, 1,000 men...are encamped in 80 tents on the heights in the rear of the Relay House.  The **6th regiment, Massachusetts**, are encamped in 108 tents, on a high bluff, half a mile west of the Relay House, and near the railway. The **Boston Light Artillery** are doing service here. They have six pieces, 75 horses, and number 105 men. The first section commands the bridge from a prominence; the second is stationed near the railroad, and within a few rods of the Relay House, and commands the railroad and river. The third has not yet been assigned a position." - //Richmond Enquirer//, 5/14/1861
 /14/1861 - "WASHINGTON...I hear that one of the flying batteries left by rail this morning, its destination being, it is supposed, the Relay House." - //Baltimore Sun//, 5/14/1861
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 /15/1861 - "The Relay House military post was held on Monday by about 1,000 of **New York Infantry, under the command of Col. Lyons**. This force has since been reinforced by troops from Washington, including the **Eight Massachusetts Regiment**, making 2,000 or 3,000 in all there." - //Baltimore Sun//, 5/15/1861
+/15/1861 - **6th Massachusetts**. "...our tents...had come up..those for our company were pitched on the extreme south end of the ridge we occupy." - //Massachusetts Spy//, 5/15/1861
 /15/1861 - "...on Wednesday evening...the Massachusetts and New York troops, who have been encamped on Federal Hill...to convey them to the Relay House. The entire body embraced about 450 of the **New York Eighth Regiment **and 500 of the **Massachusetts Sixth and Eighth Regiments**..." - //Daily Exchange//, 5/17/1861
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 /19/1861 - "On Saturday morning...the **eighth regiment of New York** evacuated their encampment near the Relay House, and were transferred back to Washington...The regiment numbered 850 men, and carried away with them their tents and other camp equipments. A part of the **seventy-first New York regiment** relieved the eighth at the Relay camp, with the **sixth Massachusetts**...and the **Boston Light Artillery**." - //Baltimore Sun//, 5/20/1861
-/19/1861 - 6th Massachusetts, Salem Zouaves. - "We...walk a quarter of a mile for the privilege of a wash...One night (our first here)...we had no tents, but were forced to turn in 'under the canopy.'...when bang! went a musket...and we fell in, and started for the Relay House...about a mile distant." - The Harvard magazine. v.7 (1861).
+/19/1861 - **6th Massachusetts, Salem Zouaves**. - "We...walk a quarter of a mile for the privilege of a wash...One night (our first here)...we had no tents, but were forced to turn in 'under the canopy.'...when bang! went a musket...and we fell in, and started for the Relay House...about a mile distant." - The Harvard magazine. v.7 (1861).
 /20/1861 - [Four companies of the **1st Maryland Infantry** arrived at Camp Cooper, in the vicinity of Relay House, on May 20, 1861.]
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 /14/1861 - "The **sixth regiment of Massachusetts volunteers** struck the tents of their encampment at the Relay House yesterday morning, and at 11:30 A. M. were brought into Camp Carroll..." - //Baltimore Sun//, 6/14/1861
+/14/1861 - **8th New York** "...at noon we fetched up at the Relay House, nine miles from Baltimore. We were the first troops there. Church was just letting out as we drew up in line, and the officers were dealing out ammunition to the men. It created great excitement in the place. Families packed up and moved out of town immediately. Gen. Butler took lead and marched us up the hill to a splendid mansion, the residence of a leading secessionist, and took possession; and we put up our tents on the lawn. The folks vacated the premises. The next day not a secessionist could be found in the place. We had been there a few hours when the 6th Regiment of Massachusetts arrived from Washington and took possession of another mansion on the hill opposite." - //Geneva Daily Gazette//, 6/14/1861
 /15/1861 - "The **Massachusetts Sixth and New York Thirteenth Regiments**, which were brought to this city on Thursday (election day)...were yesterday sent back to their old quarters. The Massachusetts men were from the Relay House, and the New York Regiment from Annapolis Junction." - //Daily Exchange//, 6/15/1861
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 /24/1861 - "The **Mass. 6th**, at the Relay House, have reenlisted." - //Boston Post//, 7/24/1861
+/24/1861 - **4th Wisconsin**. "I made the following disposition of the regiment...four companies between Baltimore and Annapolis junction and between the Relay House and Ellicott's Mills...Regimental headquarters were established at the Relay House." - //A Wisconsin Yankee in Confederate Bayou Country//, Halbert E. Paine.
+/24/1861-11/4/1861 - **4th Wisconsin**. "Our first and second encampments were on high ground south of the railway station. Our third was on ground reputed to have been occupied by Gen. Braddock...Whether this was or was not Braddock's camping ground, it certainly had been somebody's camping ground, for in 1861 the evidence of the former use of the ground for that purpose had not disappeared." - Halbert E. Paine Papers, 4th Wisconsin, Louisiana State University.
 /26/1861 - "CAMP OF THE **SIXTH MASS. REG'T**, RELAY HOUSE, July 21, 1861...On Friday I visited the camp hospital...and went through the several apartments. The building is an elegant private residence, located in the centre of a beautiful grove, and belonged to a Mr. Talbot, but had not been occupied for a number of hears, and was entirely destitute of furniture...On the departure of the regiment from Washington for this post, the hospital was located in an old negro shanty, without even beds or straw for the sick to lay upon...the shanty was used for five or six weeks, when the residence of Mr. Talbot was secured..." - //Lowell Daily Citizen and News//, 7/26/1861
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 /31/1861 - "As announced yesterday, the **Sixth Massachusetts Regiment, and Cook's battery of Boston artillery**, passed through the city yesterday morning, en route for home. On Monday afternoon [7/29], one-half of the **Fourth Wisconsin Regiment**...was conveyed from Camp Carroll to the Relay House, Washington Junction, to take the place of the **Sixth Massachusetts Regiment**." - //Baltimore Sun//, 7/31/1861
+/31/1861 - **4th Wisconsin** "Our location is a most beautiful one, in a grove, overlooking the country for miles around. We take the place of the Massachusetts 6th...Col. Paine occupies a beautiful gothic cottage, lately occupied by Lt. Murray, secessionist, as his headquarters. The hospital is also in the building." - //Sheboygan Journal//, 8/14/1861
 /1/1861 - "The **regiment [6th Mass]** left their old quarters at the Relay House on Tuesday morning at 6 o'clock." - //Boston Post//, 8/1/1861
+early 8/1861 - **4th Wisconsin**. "Early in August, 1861, the companies were united at the Relay House. Details were made to guard the railroad and bridges between Baltimore and Annapolis Junction and between the Relay house and Ellicott's Mills; and we remained at the Relay House, in three different camps, until November 4, 1861...Our first and second encampments were on high ground south of the railway station. Our third was on ground reputed to have been occupied by Gen. Braddock [during the French and Indian War]..Whether this was or was not Braddock's camping ground, it certainly had been somebody's camping ground; for in 1861 the evidence of the former use of the ground for that purpose had not disappeared...While we were encamped at the Relay House, details from the regiment...constructed Fort Dix...[Later on] we realized the emotions of Surgeon Smith when, having been extricated from the mud and rain, behind Mr. Latrobe's hog-pen, at the Relay House..." - //A Wisconsin Yankee in Confederate Bayou Country//, Halbert E. Paine.
 /26/1861 - "The **4th REGIMENT**...The regiment is now encamped about half a mile from the Relay House on a hill overlooking the whole country...We occupy the grounds and residence of an old, secessionist, who is now dead. The **Massachusetts 6th** (who were here before us,) took possession of it, and used the house, which is a very large and well constructed one, for a hospital. The house is in the midst of a splendid grove, in which our tents are pitched. We have the best of water near by..." - //Calumet Republican//, 8/26/1861
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 /2/1861 - "A Fort at the Relay House. Surveys have been made and ground broken for a fortification of considerable magnitude on the south side of the Patapsco river, at the Relay House, Washington Junction, on the eminence just east of the viaduct, which commands the country and the railroad tracks of the Washington Branch, and Baltimore and Ohio railroad for some distance in either direction. It is propose to name the defense "Fort Dix." - //Baltimore Sun//, 10/2/1861
+/4/1861 - "St. Denis, Relay House, Md., Oct. 4, 1861. I am here at the Relay, a dirty, miserable inn, to build a small battery here. I intended at first to have a large fort, but it was objectionable for so many reasons, that I went on to see Gen. McClellan about it, and he changed the programme for two reasons, that the enemy dare not cross the river now, so late in the season, and because Baltimore isn’t worth spending much money and labor on.
+I am the assistant to Col. Brewerton, U. S. Engnrs. here, in his office, when I am in the city; but here, in this work, I am perfectly independent of everybody. When I get through here, I have got to go up to Ellicott’s Mills and build a work there." - //Paine ancestry. The family of Robert Treat Paine, signer of the Declaration of Independence, including maternal lines by Paine, Sarah Cushing//
 /5/1861 - "Two companies of the **Tenth Maine Regiment**...were on Sunday ordered to the Relay House...yesterday the remaining eight companies proceeded to the same post. The **Fourth Wisconsin ****Regiment**, heretofore stationed along the railroad from the Relay to Annapolis Junction, have been ordered to Baltimore." - //Baltimore Sun//, 11/5/1861
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 /22/1861 - "**Maine Tenth Regiment**, Nov. 16, 1861...we removed eight miles...to the vicinity of the Relay House...Here again we had a very find place for encamping; a high piece of ground sloping gently to the south, overlooking a wide basin of well cultivated land, the summit and northern slope being covered with a fine growth of oak, walnut and cedar. Our men were delighted with this situation, but it became necessary for us to leave...We are now encamped on the right bank of the Patapsco, a mile and a half from our last encampment." - //Zion's Advocate//, Portland, ME, 11/22/1861
+/7/1861 - "I cannot but refer to my few hours' tarry at the "Relay House", where, during the "three months," I passed so many pleasant hours. I walked up to the ground of "Camp Essex" - it was deserted and bare...I found vestiges of the old ovens where we baked our "beans," and the old paths were not entirely wayworn. But the place bore no resemblance to [...] of the spring and summer time. The breastworks on the hill, that commanded the viaduct, and those that swept in their range the Harper's Ferry Road, were moss-grown and crumbling, and the old stables of the battery were empty and half in ruins." - //Cape Ann Light and Gloucester Telegraph//, 12/7/1861
 /23/1861 - "The **New York Sixtieth** from the Relay to the Locust Point..." - //Baltimore Sun//, 12/23/1861
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 /1861-5/1862 - "CAMP LIFE AT THE RELAY...we took the cars, were borne off, and dropped on the side of a hill about a half mile from the Relay House...Next morning the brown of the hill opposite the mansion was appropriated to our use;..."Camp Essex" rose...The view from our camp was charming. At our feet lay a narrow valley through which crept the slumberous Patapsco, covering its face with willows...Just at our feet nestled the little village of Elk Ridge Landing...[Extensive additional descriptions.] - Harper's Magazine, Volume 24
-/2/1862 - **60th New York Infantry.**["Cos. A. and G. are at Annapolis Junction, about half way between Baltimore and Washington. Co's, K, C, E and I, are at Camp Preston King near Baltimore, and the remainder of them are at Camp Miles near Relay House."] - //St. Lawrence////Plaindealer//, 5/2/1862
+/2/1862 - **60th New York Infantry.**["Cos. A. and G. are at Annapolis Junction, about half way between Baltimore and Washington. Co's, K, C, E and I, are at Camp Preston King near Baltimore, and the remainder of them are at Camp Miles near Relay House."] - //St. Lawrence Plaindealer//, 5/2/1862
 /6/1862 - "The Relay House is one of the strategic points...A battery of two guns was placed on the road above the junction, commanding the bend in the track from the Avalon Iron Works, and two camps established on the hills, but these have been removed some time since."- //Camden Confederate//, 6/6/1862
-/23/1862 -"The regiment did duty on the fortifications on Maryland Heights until June 23d, when the regiment started for Relay House in Maryland…to draw horses…We arrived there on the 24th…The regiment received part of their horses July 8th and the rest about the 20th…We drilled our horses every day until the 29th of August, when we were ordered to Harper's Ferry.” - Deeds of Daring: Or, History of the Eighth N. Y. Volunteer Cavalry…by Henry Norton, 1889.
+/11/1862 - "2092 MEN WANTED. HEAD-QUARTERS, **4th & 6th Regts., MARYLAND VOLS**, Baltimore, May 29th, 1862...Recruits for the two new Regiments...will at once be received and mustered into service...The extensive Barracks of the 10th Maine Regiment, stationed near the Relay House...will be taken possession of to Drill, Clothe, Subsist, and organize the two Regiments. The Camp will be known as Camp Bradford." - [Frederick] //Examiner//, 6/11/1862
+/23/1862 -"The regiment did duty on the fortifications on Maryland Heights until June 23d, when the regiment started for Relay House in Maryland…to draw horses…We arrived there on the 24th…The regiment received part of their horses July 8th and the rest about the 20th…We drilled our horses every day until the 29th of August, when we were ordered to Harper's Ferry.” - Deeds of Daring: Or, History of the **Eighth N. Y. Volunteer Cavalry**…by Henry Norton, 1889.
 ca. 8/30/1862 - **138th Pennsylvania Volunteers**. "Company A was stationed at Jessop's Cut, or Hooversville, Company C at Dorsey's Switch, Company E at Hanover Switch, and Company D at Elk Ridge Landing...Company B was sent to guard Ellicott's Mills, and a detachment of Company I to Elysville...four companies remained at Relay House..." - History of the One hundred and thirty-eighth regiment, Pennsylvania ... Lewis, Osceola.
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 /1/1862 - "The **147th Pennsylvania** has just been located in the vicinity of the Relay House, in charge of a portion of the road for some distance." - //Alexandria Gazette//, 9/1/1862
-ca. 9/3/1862 - "We reached our destination about sundown and camped just beyond the Viaduct, on a grassy hilltop...We named our camp "Camp Wool, near Relay House, Md."...The next morning we commenced laying out our camp...After a few days we moved camp to the other side of the Viaduct on high ground in an apple orchard in rear of the Relay House Station." - Three Years with the Adirondack Regiment: 118th New York Volunteers Infantry By John Lovell Cunningham
+ca. 9/3/1862 - "We reached our destination about sundown and camped just beyond the Viaduct, on a grassy hilltop...We named our camp "Camp Wool, near Relay House, Md."...The next morning we commenced laying out our camp...After a few days we moved camp to the other side of the Viaduct on high ground in an apple orchard in rear of the Relay House Station." - Three Years with the Adirondack Regiment: **118th New York Volunteers Infantry** By John Lovell Cunningham
+/5/1862 - "...our camp is about a half of a mile from washington junction we have got a very plesant place it is located in a heigh hill about thirty rods from the railroad on one side and about a half of a mile on the other we
+are also surrounded by four or five other ridgiments we have got our tents built we have to lay six in a tent"- 9/5/1862 letter of James Oscar Tyrel, **118th New York**.
 /17/1862 - "At the time of the battle of Antietam, the Relay House was the scene of great activity...the **118th New York Vol. Infantry, 138th Pa. Vols. **and** Battery B, 5th New York Light Artillery**...the **138th Regiment**, were soon ordered to other points for service..." - History of the One Hundred and Thirty-eighth Regiment, Pennsylvania Volunteer Infantry
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 /10/1862 - "...we were sworn into the service of the U. S....We...were shipped nine miles below Baltiomre, to the Relay house. Then we were marched 1/2 mile from the station and encamped. After remaining there about one week, we were marched back near the Relay house and encamped on somewhat of a knoll near Fort Dix, where we now remain...**138th Regt. P. V**...." - //Bedford Gazette//, 10/10/1862
+/25/1863 - "Having never seen anything in your useful journal from the **Seventh Maryland**...I propose to give in detail...the service where seen...on the afternoon of the 12th...we arrived at the Relay House...where we remained until next morning, when we again started up the Western Maryland R. R....In the afternoon we returned to Relay...we remained in camp at Relay House five days, drilling day and night too...on the afternoon of the 19th September we were again on our way..." - [Frederick] //Examiner//, 2/25/1863
 /16/1863 - "...on the 16th of June, the **138th Regiment** abandoned the Relay House..." - History of the One hundred and thirty-eighth regiment, Pennsylvania ...Lewis, Osceola.
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-/1864 - "Company F, **5th NY Heavy Artillery**,...
+/1864 - "Company F, **5th NY Heavy Artillery**,...\\
+Jan & Feb, 1864\\
+station of company, Fort Dix, Relay House, Md.\\
+Mar & Apr, 1864\\
+station of company: Camp Hill, Harper's Ferry, Va\\
+record of events: left Fort Dix Md for Harper's Ferry Va\\
+on Apr 9 '64 and arrived there Apr 10 '64." - "regimental history cards, on microfilm"
-Jan & Feb, 1864
+/1/1864 - "...the **Third Delaware** is still at Relay House..." - [Georgetown, DE] //Union//, 4/1/1864
-station of company, Fort Dix, Relay House, Md.
-Mar & Apr, 1864
-station of company: Camp Hill, Harper's Ferry, Va
-record of events: left Fort Dix Md for Harper's Ferry Va
-on Apr 9 '64 and arrived there Apr 10 '64." - "regimental history cards, on microfilm"
-/19/1864 - "Captain Townsend' Company, of the **First Delaware Cavalry**, took their departure, for the Relay House, on the Baltimore and Ohio Railroad, yesterday morning. They are to guard the roads in that section."- /Delaware State journal and statesman/, 4/19/1864
+/19/1864 - "Captain Townsend' Company, of the **First Delaware Cavalry**, took their departure, for the Relay House, on the Baltimore and Ohio Railroad, yesterday morning. They are to guard the roads in that section."- //Delaware State journal and statesman//, 4/19/1864
 /30/1864 - **144th Ohio State National Guard**. "On Friday evening last, 27th inst...we marched from Relay Barracks to the Depot...We left the companies of Captain Hathaway and Captain Kitchen at Fort Dix, Relay House..." - //Perrysburg (OH) Journal//, 6/8/1864
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 /26/1864 - **93rd Regiment New York State Militia**. "Louis wrote from Relay House encampment where they had arrived at 11:00 P. M. Tuesday, 26 July. "We slept in the open air that night..." - A Soldier's Letter, 1864, Philip M. Reitzel, Maryland Historical Magazine, Fall 1988.
+/10/1864 - "FORT DIX, August 6th, 1864...Co. A, **1st N. J. Militia**...Fort Dix is situated near the Relay House on a high bluff at the junction of the Washington branch of the Baltimore and Ohio Rail Road, garrisoned by a portion of Co A, and an efficient body of **New York Artillery**, men who did good service in the fight at Monocacy, is mounted with six James' rifled 12 pounders, and one 24 pound howitzer...The river Patapsco lies about a quarter of a mile from the fort...We are not the only troops stationed at this junction, the **93d New York**, hundred days men, and twelve hundred **emergency men from Delaware** are encamped near us." - //West Jersey Press//, 8/10/1864
 /10/1864 - "...These troops are distributed along the line of the Baltimore and Ohio Railroad as follows: Baltimore and Ohio Railroad, Relay House, brigade headquarters. Fort Dix, Company A, **First New Jersey Militia** 76. Relay House, five companies **Ninety-third New York State National Guard**, 193; two sections Battery H, **Third Pennsylvania Artillery**, 80; detachment **One hundred and forty-fourth and One hundred and forty-ninth Ohio National Guard**, 28. Fort Dix, detachment **Eighth and Ninth New York Heavy Artillery**, 29. " - O.R.--SERIES I--VOLUME XLIII/1 [S# 90]
+/13/1864 - **10th Vermont**. "I am on picket today at Mr. Donaldson's, a wealthy Union man who has a lovely home and family."- Personal recollections and civil war diary, 1864; by Abbott, Lemuel Abijah
 /19/1864 - "Relay House: Companies B, C, D, H, and K, and headquarters **Ninety-third New York State National Guard**, Col. W. R. W. Chambers; two sections **Battery H, Third Pennsylvania Artillery,** Capt. W. D. Rank. Fort Dix: Companies O, F, I, K, and headquarters **First Eastern Shore Maryland Volunteers**, Maj. John R. Keene; detachment **Eighth and Ninth New York Heavy Artillery**, Lieut. W. H. Courtney." - O.R.--SERIES I--VOLUME XLIII/1 [S# 91]
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 /17/1865 - **11th Maryland** recruiting more soldiers for service at Relay House. - //The Baltimore Sun//, 2/17/1865
+/24/1865 - "SALE OF GOVERNMENT PROPERTY. The undersigned will sell at public auction on FRIDAY, December 1st, 1865, the BARRACKS and BUILDINGS situated near the Relay House, Md...consisting of buildings described as follows, viz:
+One Barrack, 100x18 feet.\\
+One do 40x16 feet.\\
+One Officers' Building, 14x12 feet.\\
+One Kitchen, 54x12 feet.\\
+One Officers' Building, 20x60 feet.\\
+One do do 15x60 feet.\\
+One Commissary Building 20x50 feet.\\
+One Stable 24x40 feet.\\
+One do 24x80 feet.\\
+Two Kitchens, 10x16 feet.\\
+One Stove House, 16x50 feet.\\
+Lumber 20,000 feet.\\
+ENGINEER PROPERTY.
+Two Block Houses, 36x36 feet.\\
+One Magazine. Timber in gun proofs.\\
+One Bomb-proof. Rivetments and Gates.\\
+One lot of Timber Fencing...." - //Baltimore Clipper//, 11/24/1865

Howard County, MD in the Civil War

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