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 [[Images_of_Relay_House|Images of Relay House]] [[Images_of_Relay_House|Images of Relay House]]
  
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 4/25/1861 - "​...Thursday morning...we took up our line of march for Washington Junction...We arrived at the Junction early on Friday morning...Squads of fifteen men each were then placed between the Junction and Washington city, to protect the track...Early on Saturday the train picked us up and took us to Washington."​ - Mancellar F. Roll, **71st New York State Militia**, //New York Daily Herald//, 5/3/1861 4/25/1861 - "​...Thursday morning...we took up our line of march for Washington Junction...We arrived at the Junction early on Friday morning...Squads of fifteen men each were then placed between the Junction and Washington city, to protect the track...Early on Saturday the train picked us up and took us to Washington."​ - Mancellar F. Roll, **71st New York State Militia**, //New York Daily Herald//, 5/3/1861
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 5/13/1861 - "​Nearing the Relay House the white tents (116 in number) of the **Sixth Massachusetts Regiment** encampment stick out quite prominently against the sky, perched as they are upon the apex of the commanding bluff at this (western) end of the viaduct. From the eastern face of this bluff two brass barkers (6-pounders) show their teeth from the opening of an earthwork, and are placed so as to rake the bridge and railroad beyond, in the direction of Baltimore, for perhaps a mile....Upon the summit of the hill are two 6-pounders..."​ - //Evening Star//, 5/13/1861 5/13/1861 - "​Nearing the Relay House the white tents (116 in number) of the **Sixth Massachusetts Regiment** encampment stick out quite prominently against the sky, perched as they are upon the apex of the commanding bluff at this (western) end of the viaduct. From the eastern face of this bluff two brass barkers (6-pounders) show their teeth from the opening of an earthwork, and are placed so as to rake the bridge and railroad beyond, in the direction of Baltimore, for perhaps a mile....Upon the summit of the hill are two 6-pounders..."​ - //Evening Star//, 5/13/1861
  
-5/14/1861 - "RELAY HOUSE, May 11, 6 P. M. The **8th regiment of New York Militia**, 1,000 men...are encamped in 80 tents on the heights in the rear of the Relay House. ​ The **6th regiment, Massachusetts**,​ are encamped in 108 tents, on a high bluff, half a mile west of the Relay House, and near the railway. The **Boston Light Artillery** are doing service here. They have six pieces, 75 horses, and number 105 men. The first seciton ​commands the bridge from a prominence; the second is stationed near the railroad, and within a few rods of the Relay House, and commands the railroad and river. The third has not yet been assigned a position."​ - //Richmond Enquirer//, 5/14/1861+5/14/1861 - "RELAY HOUSE, May 11, 6 P. M. The **8th regiment of New York Militia**, 1,000 men...are encamped in 80 tents on the heights in the rear of the Relay House. ​ The **6th regiment, Massachusetts**,​ are encamped in 108 tents, on a high bluff, half a mile west of the Relay House, and near the railway. The **Boston Light Artillery** are doing service here. They have six pieces, 75 horses, and number 105 men. The first section ​commands the bridge from a prominence; the second is stationed near the railroad, and within a few rods of the Relay House, and commands the railroad and river. The third has not yet been assigned a position."​ - //Richmond Enquirer//, 5/14/1861
  
 5/14/1861 - "​WASHINGTON...I hear that one of the flying batteries left by rail this morning, its destination being, it is supposed, the Relay House."​ - //Baltimore Sun//, 5/14/1861 5/14/1861 - "​WASHINGTON...I hear that one of the flying batteries left by rail this morning, its destination being, it is supposed, the Relay House."​ - //Baltimore Sun//, 5/14/1861
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 5/15/1861 - "The Relay House military post was held on Monday by about 1,000 of **New York Infantry, under the command of Col. Lyons**. This force has since been reinforced by troops from Washington, including the **Eight Massachusetts Regiment**, making 2,000 or 3,000 in all there."​ - //Baltimore Sun//, 5/15/1861 5/15/1861 - "The Relay House military post was held on Monday by about 1,000 of **New York Infantry, under the command of Col. Lyons**. This force has since been reinforced by troops from Washington, including the **Eight Massachusetts Regiment**, making 2,000 or 3,000 in all there."​ - //Baltimore Sun//, 5/15/1861
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 +5/15/1861 - **6th Massachusetts**. "​...our tents...had come up..those for our company were pitched on the extreme south end of the ridge we occupy."​ - //​Massachusetts Spy//, 5/15/1861
  
 5/15/1861 - "...on Wednesday evening...the Massachusetts and New York troops, who have been encamped on Federal Hill...to convey them to the Relay House. The entire body embraced about 450 of the **New York Eighth Regiment **and 500 of the **Massachusetts Sixth and Eighth Regiments**..."​ - //Daily Exchange//, 5/17/1861 5/15/1861 - "...on Wednesday evening...the Massachusetts and New York troops, who have been encamped on Federal Hill...to convey them to the Relay House. The entire body embraced about 450 of the **New York Eighth Regiment **and 500 of the **Massachusetts Sixth and Eighth Regiments**..."​ - //Daily Exchange//, 5/17/1861
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 6/14/1861 - "The **sixth regiment of Massachusetts volunteers** struck the tents of their encampment at the Relay House yesterday morning, and at 11:30 A. M. were brought into Camp Carroll..."​ - //Baltimore Sun//, 6/14/1861 6/14/1861 - "The **sixth regiment of Massachusetts volunteers** struck the tents of their encampment at the Relay House yesterday morning, and at 11:30 A. M. were brought into Camp Carroll..."​ - //Baltimore Sun//, 6/14/1861
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 +6/14/1861 - **8th New York** "...at noon we fetched up at the Relay House, nine miles from Baltimore. We were the first troops there. Church was just letting out as we drew up in line, and the officers were dealing out ammunition to the men. It created great excitement in the place. Families packed up and moved out of town immediately. Gen. Butler took lead and marched us up the hill to a splendid mansion, the residence of a leading secessionist,​ and took possession; and we put up our tents on the lawn. The folks vacated the premises. The next day not a secessionist could be found in the place. We had been there a few hours when the 6th Regiment of Massachusetts arrived from Washington and took possession of another mansion on the hill opposite."​ - //Geneva Daily Gazette//, 6/14/1861
  
 6/15/1861 - "The **Massachusetts Sixth and New York Thirteenth Regiments**,​ which were brought to this city on Thursday (election day)...were yesterday sent back to their old quarters. The Massachusetts men were from the Relay House, and the New York Regiment from Annapolis Junction."​ - //Daily Exchange//, 6/15/1861 6/15/1861 - "The **Massachusetts Sixth and New York Thirteenth Regiments**,​ which were brought to this city on Thursday (election day)...were yesterday sent back to their old quarters. The Massachusetts men were from the Relay House, and the New York Regiment from Annapolis Junction."​ - //Daily Exchange//, 6/15/1861
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 7/24/1861 - **4th Wisconsin**. "I made the following disposition of the regiment...four companies between Baltimore and Annapolis junction and between the Relay House and Ellicott'​s Mills...Regimental headquarters were established at the Relay House."​ - //A Wisconsin Yankee in Confederate Bayou Country//, Halbert E. Paine. 7/24/1861 - **4th Wisconsin**. "I made the following disposition of the regiment...four companies between Baltimore and Annapolis junction and between the Relay House and Ellicott'​s Mills...Regimental headquarters were established at the Relay House."​ - //A Wisconsin Yankee in Confederate Bayou Country//, Halbert E. Paine.
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 +7/​24/​1861-11/​4/​1861 - **4th Wisconsin**. "Our first and second encampments were on high ground south of the railway station. Our third was on ground reputed to have been occupied by Gen. Braddock...Whether this was or was not Braddock'​s camping ground, it certainly had been somebody'​s camping ground, for in 1861 the evidence of the former use of the ground for that purpose had not disappeared."​ - Halbert E. Paine Papers, 4th Wisconsin, Louisiana State University.
  
 7/26/1861 - "CAMP OF THE **SIXTH MASS. REG'​T**,​ RELAY HOUSE, July 21, 1861...On Friday I visited the camp hospital...and went through the several apartments. The building is an elegant private residence, located in the centre of a beautiful grove, and belonged to a Mr. Talbot, but had not been occupied for a number of hears, and was entirely destitute of furniture...On the departure of the regiment from Washington for this post, the hospital was located in an old negro shanty, without even beds or straw for the sick to lay upon...the shanty was used for five or six weeks, when the residence of Mr. Talbot was secured..."​ - //Lowell Daily Citizen and News//, 7/26/1861 7/26/1861 - "CAMP OF THE **SIXTH MASS. REG'​T**,​ RELAY HOUSE, July 21, 1861...On Friday I visited the camp hospital...and went through the several apartments. The building is an elegant private residence, located in the centre of a beautiful grove, and belonged to a Mr. Talbot, but had not been occupied for a number of hears, and was entirely destitute of furniture...On the departure of the regiment from Washington for this post, the hospital was located in an old negro shanty, without even beds or straw for the sick to lay upon...the shanty was used for five or six weeks, when the residence of Mr. Talbot was secured..."​ - //Lowell Daily Citizen and News//, 7/26/1861
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 7/31/1861 - "As announced yesterday, the **Sixth Massachusetts Regiment, and Cook's battery of Boston artillery**,​ passed through the city yesterday morning, en route for home. On Monday afternoon [7/29], one-half of the **Fourth Wisconsin Regiment**...was conveyed from Camp Carroll to the Relay House, Washington Junction, to take the place of the **Sixth Massachusetts Regiment**."​ - //Baltimore Sun//, 7/31/1861 7/31/1861 - "As announced yesterday, the **Sixth Massachusetts Regiment, and Cook's battery of Boston artillery**,​ passed through the city yesterday morning, en route for home. On Monday afternoon [7/29], one-half of the **Fourth Wisconsin Regiment**...was conveyed from Camp Carroll to the Relay House, Washington Junction, to take the place of the **Sixth Massachusetts Regiment**."​ - //Baltimore Sun//, 7/31/1861
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 +7/31/1861 - **4th Wisconsin** "Our location is a most beautiful one, in a grove, overlooking the country for miles around. We take the place of the Massachusetts 6th...Col. Paine occupies a beautiful gothic cottage, lately occupied by Lt. Murray, secessionist,​ as his headquarters. The hospital is also in the building."​ - //Sheboygan Journal//, 8/14/1861
  
 8/1/1861 - "The **regiment [6th Mass]** left their old quarters at the Relay House on Tuesday morning at 6 o'​clock."​ - //Boston Post//, 8/1/1861 8/1/1861 - "The **regiment [6th Mass]** left their old quarters at the Relay House on Tuesday morning at 6 o'​clock."​ - //Boston Post//, 8/1/1861
  
-early 8/1861 - **4th Wisconsin**. "Early in August, 1861, the companies were united at the Relay House. Details were made to guard the railroad and bridges between Baltimore and Annapolis Junction and between the Relay house and Ellicott'​s Mills; and we remained at the Relay House, in three different camps, until November 4, 1861...Our first and second encampments were on high ground south of the railway station. Our third was on ground reputed to have been occupied by Gen. Braddock [during the Revolutionary ​War]..Whether this was or was not Braddock'​s camping ground, it certainly had been somebody'​s camping ground; for in 1861 the evidence of the former use of the ground for that purpose had not disappeared."​ - //A Wisconsin Yankee in Confederate Bayou Country//, Halbert E. Paine.+early 8/1861 - **4th Wisconsin**. "Early in August, 1861, the companies were united at the Relay House. Details were made to guard the railroad and bridges between Baltimore and Annapolis Junction and between the Relay house and Ellicott'​s Mills; and we remained at the Relay House, in three different camps, until November 4, 1861...Our first and second encampments were on high ground south of the railway station. Our third was on ground reputed to have been occupied by Gen. Braddock [during the French and Indian ​War]..Whether this was or was not Braddock'​s camping ground, it certainly had been somebody'​s camping ground; for in 1861 the evidence of the former use of the ground for that purpose had not disappeared...While we were encamped at the Relay House, details from the regiment...constructed Fort Dix...[Later on] we realized the emotions of Surgeon Smith when, having been extricated from the mud and rain, behind Mr. Latrobe'​s hog-pen, at the Relay House..." - //A Wisconsin Yankee in Confederate Bayou Country//, Halbert E. Paine.
  
 8/26/1861 - "The **4th REGIMENT**...The regiment is now encamped about half a mile from the Relay House on a hill overlooking the whole country...We occupy the grounds and residence of an old, secessionist,​ who is now dead. The **Massachusetts 6th** (who were here before us,) took possession of it, and used the house, which is a very large and well constructed one, for a hospital. The house is in the midst of a splendid grove, in which our tents are pitched. We have the best of water near by..." - //Calumet Republican//,​ 8/26/1861 8/26/1861 - "The **4th REGIMENT**...The regiment is now encamped about half a mile from the Relay House on a hill overlooking the whole country...We occupy the grounds and residence of an old, secessionist,​ who is now dead. The **Massachusetts 6th** (who were here before us,) took possession of it, and used the house, which is a very large and well constructed one, for a hospital. The house is in the midst of a splendid grove, in which our tents are pitched. We have the best of water near by..." - //Calumet Republican//,​ 8/26/1861
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 12/​1861-5/​1862 - "CAMP LIFE AT THE RELAY...we took the cars, were borne off, and dropped on the side of a hill about a half mile from the Relay House...Next morning the brown of the hill opposite the mansion was appropriated to our use;​..."​Camp Essex" rose...The view from our camp was charming. At our feet lay a narrow valley through which crept the slumberous Patapsco, covering its face with willows...Just at our feet nestled the little village of Elk Ridge Landing...[Extensive additional descriptions.] - Harper'​s Magazine, Volume 24 12/​1861-5/​1862 - "CAMP LIFE AT THE RELAY...we took the cars, were borne off, and dropped on the side of a hill about a half mile from the Relay House...Next morning the brown of the hill opposite the mansion was appropriated to our use;​..."​Camp Essex" rose...The view from our camp was charming. At our feet lay a narrow valley through which crept the slumberous Patapsco, covering its face with willows...Just at our feet nestled the little village of Elk Ridge Landing...[Extensive additional descriptions.] - Harper'​s Magazine, Volume 24
  
-5/2/1862 - **60th New York Infantry.**["​Cos. A. and G. are at Annapolis Junction, about half way between Baltimore and Washington. Co's, K, C, E and I, are at Camp Preston King near Baltimore, and the remainder of them are at Camp Miles near Relay House."​] - //St. Lawrence////Plaindealer//,​ 5/2/1862+5/2/1862 - **60th New York Infantry.**["​Cos. A. and G. are at Annapolis Junction, about half way between Baltimore and Washington. Co's, K, C, E and I, are at Camp Preston King near Baltimore, and the remainder of them are at Camp Miles near Relay House."​] - //St. Lawrence Plaindealer//,​ 5/2/1862
  
 6/6/1862 - "The Relay House is one of the strategic points...A battery of two guns was placed on the road above the junction, commanding the bend in the track from the Avalon Iron Works, and two camps established on the hills, but these have been removed some time since."​- //Camden Confederate//,​ 6/6/1862 6/6/1862 - "The Relay House is one of the strategic points...A battery of two guns was placed on the road above the junction, commanding the bend in the track from the Avalon Iron Works, and two camps established on the hills, but these have been removed some time since."​- //Camden Confederate//,​ 6/6/1862
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 9/1/1862 - "The **147th Pennsylvania** has just been located in the vicinity of the Relay House, in charge of a portion of the road for some distance."​ - //​Alexandria Gazette//, 9/1/1862 9/1/1862 - "The **147th Pennsylvania** has just been located in the vicinity of the Relay House, in charge of a portion of the road for some distance."​ - //​Alexandria Gazette//, 9/1/1862
  
-ca. 9/3/1862 - "We reached our destination about sundown and camped just beyond the Viaduct, on a grassy hilltop...We named our camp "Camp Wool, near Relay House, Md."​...The next morning we commenced laying out our camp...After a few days we moved camp to the other side of the Viaduct on high ground in an apple orchard in rear of the Relay House Station."​ - Three Years with the Adirondack Regiment: 118th New York Volunteers Infantry By John Lovell Cunningham+ca. 9/3/1862 - "We reached our destination about sundown and camped just beyond the Viaduct, on a grassy hilltop...We named our camp "Camp Wool, near Relay House, Md."​...The next morning we commenced laying out our camp...After a few days we moved camp to the other side of the Viaduct on high ground in an apple orchard in rear of the Relay House Station."​ - Three Years with the Adirondack Regiment: ​**118th New York Volunteers Infantry** By John Lovell Cunningham
  
 +9/5/1862 - "​...our camp is about a half of a mile from washington junction we have got a very plesant place it is located in a heigh hill about thirty rods from the railroad on one side and about a half of a mile on the other we 
 +are also surrounded by four or five other ridgiments we have got our tents built we have to lay six in a tent"- 9/5/1862 letter of James Oscar Tyrel, **118th New York**.
  
 9/17/1862 - "At the time of the battle of Antietam, the Relay House was the scene of great activity...the **118th New York Vol. Infantry, 138th Pa. Vols. **and** Battery B, 5th New York Light Artillery**...the **138th Regiment**, were soon ordered to other points for service..."​ - History of the One Hundred and Thirty-eighth Regiment, Pennsylvania Volunteer Infantry 9/17/1862 - "At the time of the battle of Antietam, the Relay House was the scene of great activity...the **118th New York Vol. Infantry, 138th Pa. Vols. **and** Battery B, 5th New York Light Artillery**...the **138th Regiment**, were soon ordered to other points for service..."​ - History of the One Hundred and Thirty-eighth Regiment, Pennsylvania Volunteer Infantry
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 8/10/1864 - "​...These troops are distributed along the line of the Baltimore and Ohio Railroad as follows: Baltimore and Ohio Railroad, Relay House, brigade headquarters. Fort Dix, Company A, **First New Jersey Militia** 76. Relay House, five companies **Ninety-third New York State National Guard**, 193; two sections Battery H, **Third Pennsylvania Artillery**,​ 80; detachment **One hundred and forty-fourth and One hundred and forty-ninth Ohio National Guard**, 28. Fort Dix, detachment **Eighth and Ninth New York Heavy Artillery**,​ 29. " - O.R.--SERIES I--VOLUME XLIII/1 [S# 90] 8/10/1864 - "​...These troops are distributed along the line of the Baltimore and Ohio Railroad as follows: Baltimore and Ohio Railroad, Relay House, brigade headquarters. Fort Dix, Company A, **First New Jersey Militia** 76. Relay House, five companies **Ninety-third New York State National Guard**, 193; two sections Battery H, **Third Pennsylvania Artillery**,​ 80; detachment **One hundred and forty-fourth and One hundred and forty-ninth Ohio National Guard**, 28. Fort Dix, detachment **Eighth and Ninth New York Heavy Artillery**,​ 29. " - O.R.--SERIES I--VOLUME XLIII/1 [S# 90]
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 +9/13/1864 - **10th Vermont**. "I am on picket today at Mr. Donaldson'​s,​ a wealthy Union man who has a lovely home and family."​- Personal recollections and civil war diary, 1864; by Abbott, Lemuel Abijah
  
 9/19/1864 - "Relay House: Companies B, C, D, H, and K, and headquarters **Ninety-third New York State National Guard**, Col. W. R. W. Chambers; two sections **Battery H, Third Pennsylvania Artillery,​** Capt. W. D. Rank. Fort Dix: Companies O, F, I, K, and headquarters **First Eastern Shore Maryland Volunteers**,​ Maj. John R. Keene; detachment **Eighth and Ninth New York Heavy Artillery**,​ Lieut. W. H. Courtney."​ - O.R.--SERIES I--VOLUME XLIII/1 [S# 91] 9/19/1864 - "Relay House: Companies B, C, D, H, and K, and headquarters **Ninety-third New York State National Guard**, Col. W. R. W. Chambers; two sections **Battery H, Third Pennsylvania Artillery,​** Capt. W. D. Rank. Fort Dix: Companies O, F, I, K, and headquarters **First Eastern Shore Maryland Volunteers**,​ Maj. John R. Keene; detachment **Eighth and Ninth New York Heavy Artillery**,​ Lieut. W. H. Courtney."​ - O.R.--SERIES I--VOLUME XLIII/1 [S# 91]
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