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-<html><font size="+2"><b><u><center>Military Operations at Ellicott's Mills, MD, 1861-1865</center></u></b></font></html>+====== Military Operations at Ellicott's Mills, MD, 18611865 ====== 
  
  
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 Lieutenant-General SCOTT: Lieutenant-General SCOTT:
  
-GENERAL: In obedience to your command, I have occupied the station at the Relay House, nine miles from Baltimore, with the **Eighth New York Regiment.** I have learned however that a force of two regiments of dragoons had been raised and were in force at Ellicott's Mills, some eight miles from this point, and I therefore ordered up **Major Cook's light battery, Massachusetts Volunteer Militia**, which was with me at Annapolis; and as I was moving Colonel Jones' **Sixth Regiment Massachusetts Volunteer Militia** from the capital, I ordered them also here, so that I am here in considerable force, to wit: +GENERAL: In obedience to your command, I have occupied the station at the Relay House, nine miles from Baltimore, with the **Eighth New York Regiment.** I have learned however that a force of two regiments of dragoons had been raised and were in force at Ellicott's Mills, some eight miles from this point, and I therefore ordered up **Major Cook's light battery, Massachusetts Volunteer Militia**, which was with me at Annapolis; and as I was moving Colonel Jones' **Sixth Regiment Massachusetts Volunteer Militia** from the capital, I ordered them also here..." - War of the Rebellion: Serial 002 Page 0623 Chapter IX. CORRESPONDENCE, ETC.-UNION.
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-Colonel Lyons, Eighth Regiment 1,000 men.\\  +
-Colonel Jones, Sixth Regiment 600 \\  +
-Major Cook 100 \\  +
-Total 1,600 " - War of the Rebellion: Serial 002 Page 0623 Chapter IX. CORRESPONDENCE, ETC.-UNION.+
  
 5/31/1861 - "An advance guard of sixty United States troops were at Hallafield, above Ellicott's Mills, yesterday morning." - //Baltimore Sun//, 5/31/1861 5/31/1861 - "An advance guard of sixty United States troops were at Hallafield, above Ellicott's Mills, yesterday morning." - //Baltimore Sun//, 5/31/1861
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