Howard County, MD in the Civil War

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Primary Sources for the 3rd Delaware Infantry

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Delaware State Journal and Statesman, July 24, 1863

The Third Delaware are guarding the Baltimore and Ohio Rail Road and the Relay House. They were not in the battle of Gettysburg.

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Delaware State Journal and Statesman, November 24, 1863

RETURNED TO DUTY. The First Delaware Cavalry returned to duty at Drummondtown, Virginia, on Saturday night last; Capt. Nields' Battery to Washington, on Sunday; the Third Delaware to the Relay House, near Baltimore, at noon, yesterday…

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Union, April 1, 1864

The Delaware Regiments —The First Delaware Regiment is encamped at Cedar Grove about 12 miles from Brandy Station, Va., in the front of the enemy; the Second Delaware is encamped near Sheppard’s Grove, Va.; the Third Delaware in still at the Relay House, Md,; the Fourth Delaware is at Fairfax Court House, Va.; the First Delaware Battery is encamped in a public square in the heart of New Orleans; a portion of the First Delaware Cavalry is encamped near Baltimore, and a portion at Camp Smithers Brandywine Hundred. Commonwealth.

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The Baltimore Sun, June 29, 1864

KILLED, whilst leading his regiment in a charge upon the enemy’s works at Petersburg, Va, on Saturday, the 18th instant, Lieutenant Colonel W. B. DORRELL, commanding the Third Regiment Delaware Volunteers. He was the son in-law of Major James McGowan, of Ellicott’s Mills, whose youngest daughter. Addie V., he married only five brief months ago. He was one of the first to volunteer in 1861 under the call for troops to serve for three months, enlisting as a private. On the expiration of his term he re-enlisted for three years, with the rank of Captain, from which position he earned his promotion to the post he held at the time of his death, in the 25th year of his age. Young as he was, it is not too much to say that no nobler life than his has been laid upon the altar of our nation’s freedom. A sincere Christian, he was as remarkable for the habitual modesty of his demeanor as he was for coolness and courage in the hour of battle and danger. He lived after receiving his wound only long enough to send a loving “farewell” to the young wife he was never more to meet on earth, and to say to the soldiers who carried him from the field, who loved and honored him as a friend and brother. “Fight on, boys, your cause is holy!”

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