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 Sixth Maryland Regiment of Infantry Around the Campfire Discussion Forum 6th Maryland Volunteer Infantry Regiment
Eli was born September 4, 1844 in the 5th district Baltimore County, Maryland.
Stephen G. Martin was born in and volunteered from Leitersburg, Maryland.
Infantry, while gallantly in discharge of his duty in an engagement with the enemy at the Wilderness, VA. was wounded by a rifle ball entering (his) right side and another wounding (his) left side near (his) shoulder and (was) carried to the rear all on the 5th of May, 1864.
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 My Favorite Site 3
When only 22 years of age he raised a company and marched it, as part of Col. Sterrett's 5th Regiment, to the field of the battle of Bladensburg, and while gallantly resisting the advance of the enemy at North Point was wounded in the leg by a musket ball.
GEORGE A. Corresponding Member of the Maryland Historical Society, andc.
He was at various times a Judge of the Land Office, of the Court of Admiralty, one of the Council and in the sessions of 1762 and 1763 represented the City of Annapolis in the Legislature, and during the administration of Gov. Horatio Sharpe was Lieut.
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 5th Maryland Infantry Regiment History
On December 10, 1776 Marylanders, responding to a call from the Continental Congress, formed the Maryland 5th Infantry, the "Dandy Fifth", as part of the "Maryland Line" and established the Maryland Militia as one of the oldest regiments in the nation.
The 5th Regiment was the largest National Guard regiment called to Federal Service for World War I. Established: December 3, 1774 at Baltimore, Maryland
The 175th Infantry Regiment is a component of the 3rd Brigade, 29th Infantry Division (Light).
www.marylandguard.com /mdarng/reg_hist/5th_reg   (298 words)

  
 "Sospecting the prisner to be a tory..."
The units comprising the brigade were the 2nd, 4th, and 7th Maryland Regiments, along with the German Regiment and Hazen's 2nd Canadian Regiment.
[Members of the court: Colonels John Gunby (7th Maryland) and Samuel Smith (4th Maryland), Majors John Taylor (Hazen's), John Stewart (2nd Maryland) and Uriah Forrest (3rd Maryland), Captains Patten(?), Grush(?), Henry Dobson (6th Maryland), Robert Burns (Hazen's), Dorsey (either Daniel, 4th Maryland, or Ely, 2nd Maryland), Joseph Marbrey (3rd Maryland) and James Henry (5th Maryland).]
Of particular interest in these proceedings are the arguments used to entice the soldiers to desert, reasons for their dissatisfaction, and the testimony of Alice Wood, attached to Hazen's Regiment, who had left her children behind when she followed her husband into the army.
www.continentalline.org /articles/9804/980402.htm   (298 words)

  
 HomeTeamsONLINE.com
The 8th Regiment was mustered out of the military service of the United States May 31, 1865, at Arlington Heights, Va.; thence, with the Maryland Brigade, it returned to Baltimore and was received with high honors by the Governor of Maryland, the Mayor of Baltimore and a large concourse of people.
On June 6, 1864, the Maryland Brigade became the 2d Brigade, 2d Division, 5th Army Corps, until the expiration of the close of the war.
The 8th Regiment, with the Maryland Brigade, participated with the Army of the Potomac, under General Meade, in the campaign incident to the movements of the Army of the Potomac during the fall and winter of 1863-64.
www.hometeamsonline.com /reenactorteam?username=8thMaryland   (298 words)

  
 The Battle of Hobkirk's Hill
On August 16, 1780, as lieutenant-colonel of the 5th Maryland Regiment, he fought at the Battle of Camden under Maj. Gen.
Howard succeeded to the command of the 2nd Maryland Regiment upon Col. Ford’s mortal wound on Hobkirk’s Hill.
Howard, John Eager (1752-1827) Soldier, Governor of Maryland: Howard grew up in a wealthy home and was well-educated by tutors.
www.southerncampaign.org /hobkirk/com.html   (298 words)

  
 Pennsylvania State Parks - Bucktail - PA DCNR
The regiment trained at Camp Curtin in Harrisburg, Pennsylvania until June 1861, when it was detached, along with the 5th Regiment, to the assistance of General Lew Wallace in the Cumberland, Maryland area.
As part of the federal army, they became the 42nd Pennsylvania Volunteer Infantry Regiment, also known as the Bucktail Regiment.
Pennsylvania Wilds is two million acres of public lands for hiking, biking, fishing, boating, hunting and exploration in northcentral Pennsylvania.
www.dcnr.state.pa.us /stateparks/parks/bucktail.aspx   (1575 words)

  
 Antietam
Lieutenant Colonel Oliver Hopkinson (W) 5th Maryland Infantry Regiment
Colonel Peter Lyle (W) 26th New York Infantry Regiment
Colonel Edward W. Hinks (W) Lieutenant Colonel Arthur F. Devereux (W) 20th Massachusetts Infantry Regiment
www.civilwarchronicles.com /engagements/antietam.htm   (1575 words)

  
 VachelWarfieldgenealogy.htm
Benjamin Warfield, born about 1778 in Maryland is listed among the Kentucky Soldiers of War of 1812 as a Lieutenant in the 5th Regiment; Meeshak Warfield, born about 178 in Maryland; Vachel Warfield, born about 1783 and Mary Ann Warfield, born on August 6, 1788 in Pennsylvania.
Vachel Warfield, born about 1783 in Anne Arundel County, Maryland came to Shelby County, Kentucky prior to 1810 and is listed on the census there.
Mary married William Ephraim Penn on December 15, 1805 in Shelby County, Kentucky and died on January 17, 1861 in Jefferson County, Indiana.
www.rootsweb.com /~kyfrankl/VachelWarfieldgenealogy.htm   (552 words)

  
 John Eager Howard
In 1780, as lieutenant-colonel of the 5th Maryland regiment, he fought at Camden under General Horatio Gates, and in the latter part of the year joined the army under General Nathaniel Greene.
John Eager Howard, soldier, born in Baltimore county, Maryland, 4 June, 1752; died there, 12 October, 1827.
John's father, a wealthy planter, bred him to no profession, but gave him an excellent education under the care of tutors.
thegenealogytree.com /photo-gallery/john-eager-howard.htm   (552 words)

  
 My Genealogy Home Page:Information about Col. John Eager Howard
Was a officer in the Revolutionary War and Goveror of Maryland.major in the 4th Md. regiment of the line, Lt col. of the 5th Md regiment.
John Eager Howard (son of Cornelius Howard and Ruth Eager) was born Jun-4-1752, and died Oct-12-1827.
In 1796 ha declined a seat in Washington's cabinet.
familytreemaker.genealogy.com /users/o/f/a/John-Ofallon/WEBSITE-0001/UHP-0697.html   (552 words)

  
 MMMC Guided Tour: Entrance, 5th Regiment Armory
In 2001 the World War I Memorial entrance of the Fifth Regiment Armory in Baltimore was restored by the Maryland Department of General Services with assistance from the Maryland Military Monuments Commission.
The bronze sculpture by Hans Schuler features portraits of men who served in the 29
Paint was removed from the sculpture and the copper door.
www.sos.state.md.us /MMMC/vt14-armorydoors.html   (552 words)

  
 Aegis Consulting: It Wasn't Funny Then
Second Lieutenant Quinn, 5th Infantry, gets word of an impending fire drill to be called by the Corps Commander, and has his men fall out with axes, hoses, and pails as the bugler's first notes ring out...only the call is not for a fire drill.
Retiring in 1966, he served as Honorary Colonel of the 17th Infantry Regiment in the 1980s and 90s.
orn in Maryland in 1907, William Wilson Quinn served his country as a distinguished infantryman and intelligence officer in war and peace.
www.aegis-consulting.com /quinn   (698 words)

  
 Fifth Maryland At Guilford Courthouse: An Exercise In Historical Accuracy
One battle game designer even "corrected" a nineteenth-century account of the battle which correctly identified the regiment by inserting, "(of the two regiments present, meaning the 5th Marylanders)," something at least one professional historian has also done.
The error involves a case of mistaken regimental identity in which the Fifth Maryland is credited with participation in the battle of Guilford Courthouse at the expense of the Second Maryland.
His experience during the Seven Days battle in 1862 applies to the Second Maryland since the Texas Brigade was also new to combat at the time.
battleofcamden.org /fifthmr_doc.htm   (3800 words)

  
 MG Robert Ross
Major Richard Heath, with two companies of the 5th Maryland Regiment, and Captain Edward Aisquith's rifle company, with one cannon, about 230 men in all, moved forward.
The mission of their combined forces was to divert the attention of United States forces from other theaters of the war by raiding the coast of North America.
Major General Robert Ross was born in 1766, in Ross-Trevor (now
www.myedgemere.com /local_history/mg_ross.htm   (1121 words)

  
 Rodes' Brigade
Still under Rodes, and in General Daniel H. Hill's Division, and brigaded with the 3rd, 5th, 6th, and 26th Alabama regiments, the 12th was in the advance into Maryland (fall, 1862).
Law's Brigade, [4th, 15th, 44th, 47th, and 48th Regiments]
The regiment was present but did not take part at Fredericksburg.
www.tarleton.edu /~kjones/rodes.html   (4757 words)

  
 Loyalist Volunteer Force
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units formed by these Black Loyalists included 'Dunmore's Ethiopian Regiment' and a...
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 15th Regiment Virginia Volunteer Cavalry History
Consequently, the 15th Virginia Cavalry was not engaged in the Maryland Campaign of 1862.
The uniforms of the 15th Virginia Cavalry are varied in appearance to reflect the various company composition of the original regiment.
The reactivated 15th Virginia Cavalry has members from many different walks of life, much as the original regiment had.
www.n-ssa.org /NORTHWEST/15VA/15th.html   (859 words)

  
 Fifth Maryland At Guilford Courthouse: An Exercise In Historical Accuracy
One battle game designer even "corrected" a nineteenth-century account of the battle which correctly identified the regiment by inserting, "(of the two regiments present, meaning the 5th Marylanders)," something at least one professional historian has also done.
108; Ross M. Kimmel, In Perspective: William Smallwood (Annapolis: Maryland Department of Natural Resources, 1976), pp.
Charles C. Coffin, The Boys of 76 (New York: Harper and Brothers, 1876), p.
battleofcamden.org /fifthmr_doc.htm   (3800 words)

  
 Maryland Historical Society Library: Guide to the Manuscript Collections, Part F
to the 5th Regiment, Maryland Militia, commanded by Captain Charles
tor), Charles H. Pitts (Maryland legislator), George Armistead Appleton,
(Baltimore City police commissioner), Charles Howard (Baltimore City
www.mdhs.org /library/Mss/pedleyF.html   (4310 words)

  
 British Army blazer badges
Raised in Pennsylvania, Virginia and Maryland in December 1755, by John Campbell, Earl of Loudon, styled the 62nd Foot (Royal American) Regiment, they were renumbered in 1756 as the 60th Foot.
In 1797 a 5th Bn was raised mainly from German Jaegers, who were clad in rifle green instead of the redcoats of the rest of the British Army.
On the formation of the Royal Green Jackets in 1966 this badge was dropped in favour of the new RGJ badge.
www.egframes.co.uk /blazerrgj3.htm   (4310 words)

  
 Maryland Historical Society Library: Guide to the Manuscript Collections, Part H
on the 5th Maryland Regiment, Howard vs. Moale, Baltimore riots of 1835.
Receipts written by the Clerk of the Circuit Court, Howard County, for
Correspondence with Benjamin Chew and Colonel John Eager Howard.
www.mdhs.org /library/Mss/pedleyH.html   (4310 words)

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