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 +<​html><​center><​b><​u><​font size="​+2">​The 1st Eastern Shore Volunteers in Howard County</​font></​u></​b></​center></​html>​
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 +Service at Elysville, July 1864 and at Relay House, 10/​20/​1864.\\ ​
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 +[[1st Eastern Shore Sources|Primary Sources]]\\ ​
 +[[1st Eastern Shore Secondary Sources|Archival and Secondary Sources]]\\ ​
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 +WIKIPEDIA - "The 1st Regiment Eastern Shore Maryland Volunteer Infantry was an infantry regiment that served in the Union Army during the American Civil War.
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 +The regiment was organized at Cambridge, Maryland in September 1861. Enlistments were for 3 years.[1]
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 +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.
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 +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.
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 +The regiment was originally commanded by Colonel James Wallace, a slaveowning lawyer and state legislator from Cambridge.
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 +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]
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 +In January, 1863, the regiment was attached to the VIII Corps."​
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 Consolidated with the 11th Maryland Infantry in February, 1865. Company F had a skirmish in 1864. Consolidated with the 11th Maryland Infantry in February, 1865. Company F had a skirmish in 1864.
  
  
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