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-<html><font size="+2"><b><u><center>Military Operations at Elysville, MD, 1861-1865</center></u></b></font></html>
+====== Military Operations at Elysville, MD, 1861-1865 ======
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-<caption>Martenet's Map of Howard County, Maryland : drawn entirely from actual surveys</caption>
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-<caption>Military map, Baltimore Co., Md. Kaiser, George.</caption>
+//Martenet's Map of Howard County, Maryland : drawn entirely from actual surveys//
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+//Military map, Baltimore Co., Md. Kaiser, George.//
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+//Elysville Bridge, 1857//
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-<caption>Elysville Bridge, 1857</caption>
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 ca. 8/30/1862 - **138th Pennsylvania Volunteers**. "Company A was stationed at Jessop's Cut, or Hooversville, Company C at Dorsey's Switch, Company E at Hanover Switch, and Company D at Elk Ridge Landing...Company B was sent to guard Ellicott's Mills, and a detachment of Company I to Elysville...four companies remained at Relay House..." - History of the One hundred and thirty-eighth regiment, Pennsylvania ... Lewis, Osceola.
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 /6/1862 - **14th New Jersey Infantry**. "We are very pleasantly located a mile southeast of Elysville in a beautiful orchard...We are camped in an apple orchard and a splendid position it is. The water is excellent. The trees are loaded down with fruit and we are in an enemy country and on a Secesh farm. The owners name is Dorcey and he is rank Secesh. He came over when we first came here, but had little to say as it was not well for him to say much." - //Upon the Tented Field//, by Bernard A. Olsen
+/11/1862 - "At about 11 o'clock, P. M., we halt at Elysville, eighteen miles from the “Relay House,” and twenty-seven miles from Baltimore, on the same road. Here we find another bridge to protect...A **Maine regiment** was quartered here for some time" - //Monmouth Democrat//, 9/11/1862
 /15/1862 - "...in due time we reached Eleysville, a small station on the Baltimore and Ohio Railroad. Here the **Fourteenth New Jersey**...were stationed, and a detachment from the **First Maryland** for picket and guard duty." - //The Philadelphia Inquirer//, 9/15/1862
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 /12/1864 - "Our pickets had a skirmish beyond Elysville this morning with a squad of rebel cavalry, killing a lieutenant in command, and capturing two, the balance escaping." - **Evening Star**, 7/12/1864
+[12/29/1873 - "Death of Ishmael Day. ...Mr. Day, it will be remembered, shot a young Confederate soldier in Baltimore county, July 11, 1864, during the raid of Harry Gilmore...Mr. Day had the United States flag flying at his farm, and two young Confederates...rode up and ordered Mr. Day to take down that flag...Mr. Day then shot the young man..."] - //Baltimore Sun//, 12/29/1873
 /10/1864 - "Baltimore and Ohio Railroad, Elysville, detachment **One hundred and forty-fourth Ohio State National Guard**, 60. " - O.R.--SERIES I--VOLUME XLIII/1 [S# 90]
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 /20/1864 - "The **Ninety-third New York State National Guard** have six companies at Elysville and one company at Annapolis Junction." - O.R.--SERIES I--VOLUME XLIII/1 [S# 91]
+/6/1865 - **213th Pennsylvania Infantry**. "...we live in a block house on a hill about 200 feet from the railroad we can see a great way of[f]..." - from a letter on ancestry.com.
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+//ellicott_city_times_10_26_1878//