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-<​html><​font size="​+2"><​b><​u><​center>​Military Operations at Laurel, MD, 1861-1865</​center></​u></​b></​font></​html>​ 
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-<​caption>​Martenet'​s Map of Prince George'​s County, Maryland, 1861.</​caption>​ 
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-[[https://​laurelhistory.com/​contributors/​jack-bowen/​|Letters and history of Laurel during the Civil War.]] 
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-[[https://​en.wikisource.org/​wiki/​The_Story_of_Aunt_Becky%27s_Army-Life|The Story of Aunt Becky'​s Army-Life]] 
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-10/24/1862 - "​**141st New York**. Our Regiment is encamped at Laurel, 3 miles from the Annapolis Junction..."​ - //Addison (NY) Advertiser//,​ 11/5/1862 
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-11/25/1862 - "THE **ONE HUNDRED AND FORTY-FIRST NEW YORK**, Col. Hathaway, arrived in this city yesterday. The regiment has been in the field two months, doing duty at Laurel Station, guarding the Baltimore and Ohio railroad."​ - //Daily National Republican//,​ 11/25/1862 
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-7/15/1863 - "The bridge crossing the Patuxent river at Laurel Station, was also washed away, together with the stone abutments; it was about sixty feet in length and regarded as a substantial structure. On the north side of the embankment at Laurel was a block house of good size, in which a number of soldiers of the **109th New York volunteers** had taken quarters. The rapidly rolling flood soon undermined its foundation and carried it off. Of those who were inside five are reported drowned."​ - //​Alexandria Gazette//, 7/15/1863 
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-4/26/1864 - "​Yesterday,​ Captain William R. Riddle, of the **6th regiment Veterans Reserve Corps**, discovered a man lurking in the vicinity of Laurel, Md., under very suspicious circumstances. The Captain arrested the individual, who upon being questioned gave his name as Lieut. George Taylor, of Moseby'​s rebel guerrillas..."​ - //Evening Star//, 4/26/1864 
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-7/20/1864 - "LOSS OF MULES. Over four hundred mules, belonging to a Government contractor, which were on pasture near Laurel Station...were gobbled by the rebels last Tuesday..."​ - //Daily National Intelligencer//,​ 7/20/1864 
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-8/26/1865 - "SALE OF GOVERNMENT BUILDINGS AT HYATTSVILLE AND LAUREL STATION, BALTIMORE AND OHIO RAILROAD, MD. Headquarters Department of Washington, Office of Chief Quartermaster. Will be sold at Public Auction...\\ ​ 
-At LAUREL STATION, Md., at 3 o'​clock p. m., TWELVE LOG BUILDINGS averaging 16x12 feet, with board roofs, floors, and partitions..."​ - //Evening Star//, 8/26/1865 
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