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Civil War Unit Listing

Below is a listing of all units (or parts thereof) that spent at least a few days in the Howard County area. The unit page contains primary and secondary source material for that unit.

1st Delaware Cavalry - Part of the unit was at Relay House, from approximately 4/11/1864-5/8/1864.

1st Connecticut Cavalry - At Annapolis Junction March 8-15, 1864.

1st District Regiment - Service along Railroad from Annapolis Junction southwards, 11/30/1861-5/31/1862, at least. Possibly merged into 60th New York at that time.

1st Eastern Shore Volunteers - at Elysville, July 1864. At Relay House, 10/20/1864.

1st Maryland Infantry - At Relay House, 5/20/1861-6/6/1861.

1st Michigan Infantry - At Annapolis Junction and Laurel, 10/4/1861-2/7/1862 (at least).

1st New Jersey Militia - At Relay House, 7/15/1864-8/12/1864.

1st Pennsylvania Reserve Infantry - At Annapolis Junction and Relay House, 7/27/1861-8/30/1861.

1st Rhode Island Cavalry - Troop A to Relay House, June 24, 1864, rest of unit at Monrovia. July 25th, 1865 rest of unit to Relay House. 7/29/1865-8/3/1865, mustered out at Relay House.

2nd Battalion New York Light Artillery - At Relay House, Md. September to October, 1862. Designated 15th New York Independent Battery Light Artillery October, 1862. [See below]

2nd Maryland - reported at Relay House, 1864, by No Greater Glory: Third Edition By Daniel A. Masters.

2nd New Jersey Militia - Several companies guarding railroads at Annapolis Junction and Beltsville, 5/5/1861 - 7/24/1861.

3rd Delaware Infantry - Service at Relay House and Elysville, 6/24/1863-4/1/1864 [at least]

3rd Pennsylvania Artillery - Company H, Capt. William D. Rank, was in skirmish near Cooksville. and served at Relay House, 6/28/1863-8/10/1864 [at least]

3rd Potomac Home Brigade/3rd Maryland Volunteer Infantry - Service at Relay House, Elysville, and Annapolis Junction. Was in skirmish near Cooksville. 6/28/1863-6/10/1864 [at least]

4th Maryland Infantry - Reported at Relay House, September 1862, in letter from the 118th New York.

4th Wisconsin Infantry - Service at Relay House, 7/29/1861-11/4/1861.

5th New York Heavy Artillery - At Relay House, September 1862. [Stationed at Relay House, January to April 9, 1864.]

5th New York State Militia - Service at Annapolis Junction, 4/30/1861-5/12/1861

5th US Artillery - OR reports a detachment of the 5th US Artillery, under Lieutenant Spooner, with 29 men, at Relay House, August, 1863.

6th Massachusetts Infantry - Service at Relay House, 5/5/1861-7/29/1861

6th New York Cavalry - Company E, under Captain Beardsley, stationed at Cooksville, 9/9/1862 through (at least) 9/11/1862.

6th New York State Militia - Service at Relay House, ca. 5/16/1861 and at Annapolis Junction, 6/29/1861-7/29/1861

6th Veteran Reserve Corps - Reported to be at Laurel, April 26, 1864.

7th Maryland Infantry - spent five days at Relay House in September, 1862.

7th Delaware Infantry - Company B at Relay House, 7/22/1864.

8th Massachusetts Infantry - Service at Relay House, 5/12/1861-7/3/1861

8th New York Cavalry - Service at Relay House, 6/23/1862-8/29/1862

8th New York State Militia - Service at Relay House, 5/5/1861-5/17/1861

8th New York Heavy Artillery - Detachment at Relay House, 8/10/1864, 9/19/1864 and 10/20/1864.

9th New York Heavy Artillery - Detachment at Relay House, 8/10/1864, 9/19/1864 and 10/20/1864.

10th Maine Infantry - Service at Relay House and Annapolis Junction, 11/3/1861-3/8/1862

10th Vermont Volunteers - At Ellicott's Mills and Relay House, 7/9/1864-7/14/1864

11th Maryland Infantry - Company C at Relay House, 12/1864-3/11/1865 [at least]

12th Maryland Infantry - Possible duty on railroad, 11/1864

12th New Jersey Infantry - Service at Ellicott's Mills, 9/8/1862-12/10/1862

13th New York State Militia - possible service at Annapolis Junction, June 1861.

13th Pennsylvania Cavalry - 9/12/1862, ordered to report to Col. Johnson at Ellicott's Mills. 12/10/1862, replaces the 12th NJ at Ellicott's Mills.

14th New Jersey Infantry - At Sykesville, 9/8/1862. At Elysville, 9/5/1862 - 9/16/1862. Reorganized at Ellicott's Mills after Monocacy.

15th New York Independent Battery Light Artillery - [Duty at Relay House, Md., October, 1862, to January, 1863.] - CWA

18th Veteran Reserve Corps - reported to be at Annapolis Junction, June, July, and August, 1864. Detachment at Beltsville, 8/1864. Definitely at Laurel, July 1864 - Oct., 1864.

20th New York State Militia - Service at Annapolis Junction, 5/11/1861-8/2/1861

21st Massachusetts Infantry - Stationed at Annapolis Junction from 8/30/1861 through 12/18/1861. Some men were previously detailed there as well.

27th Massachusetts Infantry - Company A served at and near Annapolis Junction, mid-November, 1861.

44th Pennsylvania Volunteers - Also known as the 1st Pennsylvania Cavalry and the 15th Pennsylvania Reserves. Companies served on detached duty in and around Baltimore throughout War.

60th Massachusetts Infantry - One week's duty at Relay House, August 1st to August 9th, 1864.

60th New York Infantry - Service at Relay House, 11/9/1861-6/1862.

67th Pennsylvania Infantry - Retreated from Monocacy with the 10th Vermont. Stayed at Ellicott's Mills briefly, and then to Relay House for perhaps 3 days. See: https://archive.org/details/personalrecollec00abbo/page/118

69th New York State Militia - Service at Annapolis Junction, 4/29/1861-5/2/1861

71st New York State Militia - 5/19/1861. “A part of the seventy-first New York regiment relieved the eighth at the Relay camp”

93rd New York State Militia - at Relay House, 7/26/1864, 8/10/1864. At Elysville, 9/19/1864. At least through 10/4/1864.

94th New York Infantry - Ordered by General Henry H. Lockwood to report to Annapolis Junction and await orders, 5/16/1864.

106th New York Volunteer Infantry - Retreated to Ellicott's Mills after battle of Moncacy, July 9, 1864. Stayed until the 14th.

109th New York Volunteer Infantry - Served in various locations - Laurel, Savage, Beltsville, and Annapolis Junction, 9/8/1862-3/1864. Most of the unit moved to Washington, D. C. in October of 1863. Two companies remained to guard the railroad until approximately March of 1864.

118th New York Infantry - At Relay House, September, 1862 through at least 10/23/1862. Some soldiers appeared to have remained at Relay House into 1863.

126th New York Infantry - Letter written from “Ellicottsville, MD” after surrendering at Harper's Ferry, 9/20/1862 only evidence.

131st New York Volunteer Infantry - One week encamped at Laurel, MD., 9/15/1862-9/20/1862.

138th Pennsylvania Volunteers -Service at Relay House, 8/30/1862-6/30/1863. Company A at Dorsey's Switch, 4/20/1864-6/12/1864.

141st New York Volunteer Infantry - Two months duty at Laurel, September 15 to November 24, 1862.

144th Ohio Infantry - At Annapolis Junction, May 30, 1864. At Relay House, Elysville, and Annapolis Junction, 8/18/1864.

147th Pennsylvania Infantry - Reported at Relay House, 9/1/1862.

149th Ohio Infantry - Reported at Relay House, 8/10/1864, per OR, but no evidence they were ever there, see below.

150th New York Infantry - Company D spent several days at Elysville, December, 1862.

157th Ohio Volunteer Infantry - Letters of Jefferson Glover indicate unit was at Relay House from May 20th, 1864 through June 5, 1864.

213th Pennsylvania Volunteer Infantry - only evidence is Huber letter.

Cook's Battery Boston Light Artillery, 1st Massachusetts Light Artillery - Service at Relay House, 5/5/1861-6/16/1861.

Dodd's Rifles - Also known as Company D, Third Battalion of Rifles, Militia Infantry, Minute Men of '61. Service at Relay House, 5/14/1861

Howard Dragoons - [The company was ordered to rendezvous at Ellicott's Mills, on the Patapsco River, Baltimore County, Maryland, on 19 April, 1861, and was assigned to Major General G H Steuart, Maryland Militia, at Baltimore City, Maryland, in the afternoon on 20 April, 1861.] Eventually became the 1st Maryland Cavalry, C. S. A.

Patapsco Guard - [Organized at Ellicott's Mills, Md, September 25, 1861. Attached to Dix's Command, Baltimore, Md, to March, 1862. Railroad Brigade, Middle Department, to July, 1862.] - CWA. Left Ellicott's Mills May 24, 1862 for Harper's Ferry.

Purnell Legion - 6/24/1863. “…the Purnell Legion and the Third Delaware are at the Relay House, and guarding the railroad out to Annapolis Junction, where they connect with Heintzelman, and from the Relay House out to Elysville, on the Baltimore and Ohio Railroad…” - O.R.– SERIES I–VOLUME XXVII/3 [S# 45]

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