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| - | <html><font size="+2"><b><u><center>Skirmish at Cooksville, June 28, 1863</center></u></b></font></html> | ||
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| - | <caption>Martenet's Map of Howard County, Maryland : drawn entirely from actual surveys</caption> | ||
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| - | "Captain Duvall's Company remained upon the Eastern | ||
| - | Shore of Virginia until April, 1863, when they were ordered | ||
| - | to St. Mary's and Calvert Counties, Maryland; thence to | ||
| - | the Monocacy in the same month. On the 28th of June, | ||
| - | 1863, while en route for Baltimore accompanied by a section | ||
| - | of the Third Pennsylvania Artillery, commanded by Captain Wm. D. Rank, and having reached near Cooksville, | ||
| - | they threw out pickets and encamped for the night; near | ||
| - | 11 o'clock the pickets were driven in, and from a prisoner | ||
| - | captured by them information was obtained of the advance | ||
| - | of Stuart's Cavalry Corps, some 15,000 strong. Duvall, | ||
| - | being in a tight place, concluded to retire, but with the | ||
| - | loss of his baggage, camp equipage and four horses. He, | ||
| - | however, as his first important duty, took the precaution | ||
| - | to send Sergeant Andrew Duncan and private Norris, two | ||
| - | discreet and trustworthy men, to inform the Commander | ||
| - | of the army of Stuart's flank "movement. " - Report of the state of Maryland Gettysburg monument commission to His Excellency E.E. Jackson, governor of Maryland, June 17th, 1891 | ||
| - | by Maryland. Gettysburg Monument Commission | ||
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