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__**Primary Sources for the 3rd Potomac Home Brigade**__


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//Washington DC Evening Star//, October 24, 1862

A SHOOTING AFFAIR occurred in the cars at Annapolis Junction, on Friday evening last, in which Brice B. Brewer was shot in the forehead, the ball passing in at the right side, running next the skull for three inches, and then coming out. An officer of the 3d Maryland Regiment was arrested upon the charge of shooting, but upon investigation he was discharged.


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Letter in Union Citizen's File on Fold.com indicates the 3rd Maryland had detachments at Ellicott's Mills and Marriottsville in September 1863.

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//Battle of West Frederick, July 7, 1864: Prelude to Battle of Monocacy//, by Joseph V. Collins

Third Potomac Home Brigade in the Field

In June 1864 the [Third Potomac Home Brigade] is stationed along the tracks of the B&O
at critical rail stations from Sykesville, Maryland, to the mouth of
the Monocacy River where it joins the Potomac River (south of
Frederick), a distance of approximately thirty-two miles. Company
C was stationed at Sykesville, while three miles west at Hoods
Mills was stationed Company F (recently transferred from the B&O
station at Marriottsville), and another eight miles west at Mount Airy
were stationed Companies A and G. Then four miles to the west
was Monrovia, which served as headquarters for the Third with
Companies I, H, and K. Then about three miles south of Frederick
and approximately eight miles west of Monrovia was Monocacy
Junction, a critical point in the east-west movement of personnel
and goods on the B&O. At Monocacy Junction a spur line ran north
to the city of tick, while the main line of the B&O crossed
the Monocacy River on an iron bridge and the Georgetown Pike
highway connected Frederick and Washington, D.C. At this critical
location Companies B and E were stationed. Finally, in a blockhouse
we find Company D and Major Harry C. Rizer stationed some eight
miles south of the Monocacy Junction located near the mouth of the
Monocacy River and less than three miles southeast of the important
Noland’s Ferry crossing. Company D had moved to this location at
the beginning of June from their previous post at the B&O station
at Elysville. In Company D we find Privates Isaac Van Sickle and
his younger brother Harrison. At that location was the majestic
512-foot, eleven-arch Monocacy Aqueduct [which was constructed

of native Maryland granite] of the Chesapeake and Ohio Canal that
crossed the Monocacy and affords an easy route for both cavalry
and infantry to utilize to avoid the possible delays in the populated
Frederick area. The blockhouse occupied by Company D was typical
of those constructed by the railroad during the Civil War.

By this time in 1864, Third Regiment of the Potomac Home Brigade
had 732 officers and men well below the full regiment strength of
1,200. According to the June 10, 1864, inspector general's report
the following was the composition of the First Separate Brigade
commanded by Brigadier General E.B. Tyler.
  

Location (Maryland) Unit Manpower\\ 
Relay House at B&O RR Brigade Headquarters?\\ 
Relay House at B&O RR 3 Companies of\\ 
144th Ohio Infantry 228

Fort Dix at B&O RR 2 Companies of\\ 
144th Ohio Infantry 142

Elysville at B&O RR Company "C" 3rd PHB 72\\ 
Hoods Mills at B&O RR Company PHB "F" 3rd PHB 77\\ 
Mount Airy at B&O RR Companies "A" &\\ 
"G" 3rd PHB 139\\ 
Monrovia at B&O RR Cos. "I", "H" & "K" +\\ 
Hdqtrs 3rd PHB 204\\ 
Monocacy Junction at B&0 RR Companies "E"\\ 
& "S" 160\\ 
Mouth of Monocacy River Company "D" 3rd PHB 80\\ 
Annapolis Junction Company "F" of 144th\\ 
Ohio Infantry 71\\ 

Total Troops 1,173\\ 
Third Potomac Home Brigade in the Field

Deployment of Third Potomac Home Brigade\\ 
June 30, 1864


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