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UNDAUNTED VALOR OF MARYLANDERS. 605
14th of June, the Maryland brigade bore a distinguished and active part and
suffered severe loss in killed and wounded. On the 16th, moving by way of
Charles City Court House, it crossed the James at Wilcox's Landing with the
second and fifth corps, and proceeded towards the lines near Petersburg, where
it arrived early on the morning of the 17th.
While the Maryland brigade was thus operating with Grant in his movements against Richmond, other Maryland regiments were performing active
service in other sections of the country. The 3d Maryland cavalry, composed in part of four hundred Confederate deserters from Fort Delaware who
had taken the oath of allegiance and enlisted in the Federal service, under
Colonel C. Carroll Tevis was actively engaged in the neighborhood of Madi-
sonville, Louisiana. The 6th Maryland regiment of infantry,x under Colonel
Horn, was in the sixth corps under the distinguished but lamented General
Sedgwick; and the 2d and 3d regiments, in the ninth corps under General Burnside, on more than one occasion proved their patriotism by valor
and acts of bravery. At the battle of Cold Harbor the 2d and 3d regiments
were in all the severe engagements in which the ninth corps participated;
and was part of the rear guard when Grant and his army crossed the James.
On the 17th of June their brigade was ordered to charge the Confederate
breastworks in front of Petersburg. Advancing under a heavy cross-fire from
the Confederate rifle-pits and batteries, the charge was successfully executed
with severe loss. They held the breastworks until late at night, when for
want of support their whole line fell back to their former position. On the
18th the Confederates evacuated this line of entrenchments and they were
taken possession of. In the Red River expedition in May, 1864, the third
Maryland cavalry, under the command of Captain Thomas W. Canfield, lost
severely in killed, wounded and missing.
At early dawn, on the morning of the 10th of January, 1864, Mosby's
Confederate battalion of cavalry made an attack upon*the camp of Major
Cole's Maryland cavalry, on Loudon Heights, Virginia. They avoided the
pickets, dashed into the camp with a yell, and poured a volley of bullets
into the tents where the officers and men were sleeping. Upon a demand
being made for the unconditional surrender of the command, the Marylanders
answered it by a shout of defiance as they rushed from their tents half-naked,
but with their arms, in the midst of their assailants. The Confederates fought
with the most desperate valor, which was only equalled by the coolness and
1 This regiment was organized, in Baltimore, wounded, over one-half of the regiment. The
under the call of July 2,1862, and took its de- first colonel of the regiment was George 11.
parture from the city on the 19th of September, Howard, who resigned on the 5th of May, 1863,
to Williamsport, where it joined the Maryland and was succeeded by John W. Horn. He re-
brigade. It was detached from the brigade in signed in February, 1865, and was succeeded
March, 1863, and assigned to General Milroy"s by Lieutenant Colonel Joseph C. Hill. It par-
command, and subsequently to the sixth army ticipated in the battles of Winchester, Spott-
corps under Grant, where it did gallant service. sylvania, Cold Harbor, Petersburg, Opequan.
It crossed the Rapidan with 438 men, and before Fisher's Hill, Cedar Creek, Sailor's Creek, and
the 27th of June it hud lost, in killed and Appomattox Court-House.
| Title | History of Maryland - 3 |
| Creator | Scharf, J. Thomas (John Thomas) |
| Publisher | J. B. Piet |
| Place of Publication | Baltimore |
| Date | 1879 |
| Language | eng |
| Type | Books/Pamphlets |
| Title | 00000640 |
| Type | Books/Pamphlets |
| Transcript | UNDAUNTED VALOR OF MARYLANDERS. 605 14th of June, the Maryland brigade bore a distinguished and active part and suffered severe loss in killed and wounded. On the 16th, moving by way of Charles City Court House, it crossed the James at Wilcox's Landing with the second and fifth corps, and proceeded towards the lines near Petersburg, where it arrived early on the morning of the 17th. While the Maryland brigade was thus operating with Grant in his movements against Richmond, other Maryland regiments were performing active service in other sections of the country. The 3d Maryland cavalry, composed in part of four hundred Confederate deserters from Fort Delaware who had taken the oath of allegiance and enlisted in the Federal service, under Colonel C. Carroll Tevis was actively engaged in the neighborhood of Madi- sonville, Louisiana. The 6th Maryland regiment of infantry,x under Colonel Horn, was in the sixth corps under the distinguished but lamented General Sedgwick; and the 2d and 3d regiments, in the ninth corps under General Burnside, on more than one occasion proved their patriotism by valor and acts of bravery. At the battle of Cold Harbor the 2d and 3d regiments were in all the severe engagements in which the ninth corps participated; and was part of the rear guard when Grant and his army crossed the James. On the 17th of June their brigade was ordered to charge the Confederate breastworks in front of Petersburg. Advancing under a heavy cross-fire from the Confederate rifle-pits and batteries, the charge was successfully executed with severe loss. They held the breastworks until late at night, when for want of support their whole line fell back to their former position. On the 18th the Confederates evacuated this line of entrenchments and they were taken possession of. In the Red River expedition in May, 1864, the third Maryland cavalry, under the command of Captain Thomas W. Canfield, lost severely in killed, wounded and missing. At early dawn, on the morning of the 10th of January, 1864, Mosby's Confederate battalion of cavalry made an attack upon*the camp of Major Cole's Maryland cavalry, on Loudon Heights, Virginia. They avoided the pickets, dashed into the camp with a yell, and poured a volley of bullets into the tents where the officers and men were sleeping. Upon a demand being made for the unconditional surrender of the command, the Marylanders answered it by a shout of defiance as they rushed from their tents half-naked, but with their arms, in the midst of their assailants. The Confederates fought with the most desperate valor, which was only equalled by the coolness and 1 This regiment was organized, in Baltimore, wounded, over one-half of the regiment. The under the call of July 2,1862, and took its de- first colonel of the regiment was George 11. parture from the city on the 19th of September, Howard, who resigned on the 5th of May, 1863, to Williamsport, where it joined the Maryland and was succeeded by John W. Horn. He re- brigade. It was detached from the brigade in signed in February, 1865, and was succeeded March, 1863, and assigned to General Milroy"s by Lieutenant Colonel Joseph C. Hill. It par- command, and subsequently to the sixth army ticipated in the battles of Winchester, Spott- corps under Grant, where it did gallant service. sylvania, Cold Harbor, Petersburg, Opequan. It crossed the Rapidan with 438 men, and before Fisher's Hill, Cedar Creek, Sailor's Creek, and the 27th of June it hud lost, in killed and Appomattox Court-House. |
