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+<html><center><b><u><font size="+2">The 1st Eastern Shore Volunteers in Howard County</font></u></b></center></html>
-Consolidated with the 11th Maryland Infantry in February, 1865.
+Service at Elysville, July 1864 and at Relay House, 10/20/1864.\\
+[[1st Eastern Shore Sources|Primary Sources]]\\
+[[1st Eastern Shore Secondary Sources|Archival and Secondary Sources]]\\
+WIKIPEDIA - "The 1st Regiment Eastern Shore Maryland Volunteer Infantry was an infantry regiment that served in the Union Army during the American Civil War.
+The regiment was organized at Cambridge, Maryland in September 1861. Enlistments were for 3 years.[1]
+Companies A, B and C were recruited in Dorchester County, Companies D, E, F and G in Caroline County, Company H in Talbot County, Company I at Baltimore City, and Company K in Somerset County.
+Once formed, the regiment was attached to Major General John Adams Dix's division of the Army of the Potomac.[2] It was assigned to the Eastern Shore of Maryland.
+The regiment was originally commanded by Colonel James Wallace, a slaveowning lawyer and state legislator from Cambridge.
+In the fall of 1861, Dix led an expeditionary force, including the 1st Maryland Eastern Shore, south to occupy the Virginia counties of Accomack and Northampton.[3]
+In January, 1863, the regiment was attached to the VIII Corps."
+Consolidated with the 11th Maryland Infantry in February, 1865. Company F had a skirmish in 1864.
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Howard County, MD in the Civil War

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