Howard County, MD in the Civil War

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The War of the Rebellion: A Compilation of the Official Records of the Union ...
By United States. War Department, Robert Nicholson Scott, Henry Martyn Lazelle, George Breckenridge Davis, Leslie J. Perry, Joseph William Kirkley, Fred Crayton Ainsworth, John Sheldon Moodey, Calvin Duvall Cowles

"HDQRS. FIRST SEPARATE BRIG., EIGHTH ARMY CORPS,\\ 
Relay House, Baltimore and Ohio Railroad, August 10, 1861.\\ 
Lieut. Col, LYNDE CATLIN,\\ 
Assistant Inspector General, Eighth Army Corps:\\ 

COLONEL: I have the honor to submit the following report of location, condition, &c., of the various organizations of the First Separate
Brigade, consisting of six companies of the First Regiment Eastern Shore Maryland Volunteers, eight companies of Eleventh Maryland Infantry, five companies Ninety-third New York State National Guard, One hundred and ninety-fifth Regiment 
 Pennsylvania) Volunteers, detachment of the One hundred and fourth and One hundred and forty-ninth Ohio State National Guard; Company F, One hundred and forty-fourth Ohio State National Guard; Company A, First New Jersey State Militia; detachment Eighth Illinois C: detachment First Delaware Cavalry, and Rank’s (Pennsylvania) battery. 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 ti fourth and One hundred and forty-ninth Ohio National Guard, 28. “Fort Dix, detachment Eighth and Ninth New York Heavy Artillery, 29 Annapolis Junction (Washington Branch), Company F, One hundred and forty-fourth Ohio State
National Guard, 72. Baltimore and Ohio Railroad, Elysville, detachment One hundred and forty-fourth Ohio State National Guard, 60. Mount Airy, five companies Eleventh Maryland Infantry, 327. Monrovia, three companies and headquarters Eleventh Maryland Infantry, 137; detachment First Delaware Cavalry, 202, Monocacy Junction, One hundred and ninety-fifth Regiment Pennsylvania Volunteers, 360; six companies First Eastern Shore Maryland Volunteers, 431; detachment Eighth Illinois Cavalry, 128; one Section Battery H, Third Pennsylvania Artillery, 45.

These detachments are all in good order, considering that they are nearly all new troops and their term of service is so short, but they are very deficient in drill and under poor discipline. This is owing, in a great measure, to the detached condition of the command, and also to the officers, who are not at all well instructed in their duties. This is not the case with the Eighth Illinois Cavalry, First Delaware Cavalry, Rank’s-battery, and First Eastern Shore Maryland Volunteers. ‘These troops are well organized and able to perform good service...'"




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TOOK THEIR DEPARTURE. Captain Townsend's Company, of the First Delaware Cavalry, took their departure, for the Relay House, on the Baltimore and Ohio Railroad, yesterday morning. We are informed that the other companies at Camp Brandywine, are under marching orders, and expect to leave in a few days.

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"...we have copies of reporting from the 1st Del Cav from 1864-65 at Monrovia...The entire Regt was ordered there 16 May, 1864 from Relay House...the 1st Del Cav was assigned to the Cavalry Reserve at Camp Cheseborouth in Jan 1864...From there the 1st Del HQ was at Camp Meade until it moved to Relay House on 11 April then elements to Monrovia on 8 May..." - From an email of Vince and Terry Zalenski
Howard County, MD in the Civil War

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