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+====== The 1st Connecticut Cavalry in Howard County ======
 Service at Annapolis Junction 3/8/1864-3/15/1864.\\
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 00004570 THE MILITARY AND CIVIL HISTORY OF CONNECTICUT DURING THE WAR OF 1861-65. W. A. CROFFUT AND JOHN M. MORRIS. LEDYARD BILL, 1868, pp. 489-503.
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+"Orders were received to join the Army of the Potomac; and at eight o’clock, a.m., of March 8, the old camp was broken up and abandoned, rations cooked and distributed, horses fed and groomed, small packs made up; and six hundred and seventy-five mounted men were drawn up, mounted in close column of squadrons, every man in place, sabres shining, flags flying, and guidons flashing in the wind, —a magnificent array. Major Blakeslee, young and almost beardless, might well be proud of his command as the bugler sounded the officers’ call. The line-officers rode to the front, and received directions to permit no straggling nor foraging, and to keep the ranks well filled up. The bugler sounded the “Forward!” and away they rode to a year of deadly conflict, to toil and vigilance, heat, cold, and hunger, death-wounds and glory.
 They went past the Relay House, and arrived at Annapolis Junction in the rain about three o’clock, p.m. Camp by squadrons was made east of the hospital. The officers fared well enough in the hospital; but the men had the wettest, muddiest, dismalest night they had spent since Wheeling Island and Moorefield. They were drenched, and lying in mud knee-deep. Two days later, they found a better camp, on a slope in a grove, where they were comfortable once more on dry land."