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Primary Sources for the 1st Maryland Infantry
Historical Record of the First Maryland Infantry - External Link to ebook
The Baltimore Sun, May 21, 1861
Military Matters and Movements In and About the City—The movements of troops in Baltimore and Vicinity yesterday, were not of an exciting character, and the disagreeable state of the weather prevented many persons from visiting Gen. Cadwallader's encampment at Locust Point. Yesterday, at the Relay House camp, occurred the swearing into the service of the United States of the Eighth Massachusetts Regiment, the oath being administered by Lieut. Putnam. Ten of the regent but not the original members, refused, we learn, to take the oath. One of the number was said to have been intimidated at the time of its administration, but the remainder objected because thirteen days had been added to their term of service by the colonel first in command.
The Washington train, which arrived at the Camden station at 4 o'clock yesterday afternoon, brought a number of the 69th New York Regiment, and several of the 8th Massachusetts Regiment, who were returning home on furlough, and under other conditions. Those of the latter regiment, who refused to take the oath, were included among the number. The train conveying them connected with the Philadelphia train, and all left for their homes.
At 4 o'clock P. M.,a special train, in charge of Conductor Shutt, left the Camden station for the Relay House, conveying about 400 of the recruits, enlisted in this city and vicinity, and quartered at the National Hotel. They will be drilled and uniformed at the Relay station, and mustered into the First Maryland Regiment. The number includes a company from Harford county, Md., who arrived yesterday morning.
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Evening Post, May 22, 1861
A Regiment of Army Recruits from Baltimore.
THEY DEPART WITHOUT MOLESTATION.
The Baltimore “ Plug-Uglies” have either disappeared or been tamed. The American of yesterday has this account of the departure of army recruits from the city without molestation of any kind:
For several weeks past the recruits enrolled by Captain McConnell for the United States army have been quartered at the National Motel, Camden street, and Fort McHenry, and yesterday morning, at an early hour, they received orders to get in readiness forthwith and proceed to the Relay House. About eleven o'clock three companies at the fort hastily packed up what little baggage they had, and bidding adieu to the post tramped it all the way to the Camden station, where a train was in readiness to take them. A second train, which left at four o'clock in the afternoon, also took off about five companies more, making an aggregate of six hundred and fifty men. They reached the Relay in a few minutes and are now encamped upon the heights near the place recently occupied by Colonel Lyon's Eighth Infantry of New York.
“A company recently formed in Harford county, and enrolled in McConnell's Regiment, reached here at an early hour yesterday morning. It is further learned, that orders have been received by Colonel Jones, of the Sixth Massachusetts Infantry, and the Boston Light Artillery, Captain Cooke, now at the Relay grounds, to proceed forthwith to Annapolis by rail, and thence to Fortress Monroe, in order to augment the force. A full New York regiment of ten companies, and mustering over nine hundred men, are expected to reach here at an early hour this afternoon by the Philadelphia road and will proceed to Washington. The route which they will take is not yet known, but it will probably be by the way of Locust Point Ferry.”
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Civilian and Telegraph, May 30, 1861
Maryland Items.
From the Baltimore American of Friday 24th. Enlistment of Maryland Troops The enlistment in Maryland of Soldiers for United States army is progressing rapidly in Baltimore under the direction Capt. McConnell, and the prospect is that three full regiments will soon be raised. Already sixteen companies, averaging about sixty men, have been formed many of them sent off to the camp at the Relay House.
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New York Daily Tribune, June 1, 1861
The 1st Maryland Regiment, stationed at the Avalon Mills above the Relay House, numbers 890 men, all mustered into the service for the war. They will make a first-rate corps, but the difficulty is for the Government get proper and efficient regimental officers, The intention is to raise three more such regiments, and the whole four will be under the command of Brig.-Gen. Cooper of Frederick, late United States Senator from Pennsylvania, The destination of these troops will probably be toward the South-West.
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Historical Record of the First Regiment Maryland Infantry, Charles Camper
6 HISTORICAL RECORD OF
112 Baltimore street, by John C. McConnell, Esq. The response to this call for recruits evinced the alacrity and enthusiasm of the loyal Baltimoreans, and very many of those, as before stated, who were being raised, and were being organized into a brigade by General John R. Kenly, and others, enlisted for three years, so that, by the 16th inst the organization of four companies of the First Regiment was completed, each company as it was filled being sent to the old National Hotel Building, on Camden street, for quarters, at which place they were severally mustered into the United States service, and designated, respectively, A, B, C, and D.
Meanwhile recruiting for the remaining companies was being vigorously pushed forward at other points in the city and State, and attended everywhere by the same noble response, so that by the 27th inst. the organization of the regiment was fully completed, and on that date Companies F, G, H, I, and K were accepted and mustered into the United States service, at the Relay House, on the Baltimore and Ohio railroad, whither all the companies had previously been ordered to rendezvous, Company E had been previously mustered in on the 25th inst.
The first regular encampment of the regiment was located at the Relay House, or Washington junction of the Baltimore and Ohio railroad, and was named “Camp Cooper,” in honor of Briga-
FIRST MARYLAND INFANTRY. 7
dier-General James Cooper, then engaged in the rising of a brigade of Maryland volunteers.
This officer, who subsequently died on the twenty-eighth day of March, 1863, at Columbus, Ohio, aged about 53 years, was a native of Frederick county, Maryland, but in early life removed to Pennsylvania, where he became a prominent Whig politician, and was known as one of the leading advocates of the tariff of 1842. He was elected to the United States Senate and served two terms with much ability, taking a prominent part in all the important events then agitating the country. A few years before the war he took up his residence in Frederick City, Maryland, and on the breaking out of the rebellion promptly offered his services for the Government, and was appointed the first Brigadier-General from Maryland, and assigned to the duty of raising and organizing the volunteers of the State.
In this connection it is deemed fittingly proper to remark that General Cooper's continuous and successful labors for that object, under the authority which he had from the War Department, was characterized by a degree of zeal, fidelity, and devotion to principle worthy of the highest emulation.
The regiment remained at “Camp Cooper” but a brief period, for the morning of June the 6th found it en route to Baltimore, where it went into camp for instruction and drill, on the grounds
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Figure 1: boston-post-jun-11-1861
Company F of the 1st Maryland Infantry placed a note in the Baltimore American in November 1864 thanking the Union ladies of Ellicott’s Mills with the “highest regard” for providing turkey dinners on Thanksgiving. 11/24/1864
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