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-<html><font size="+2"><b><u><center>Military Operations at Relay House, MD, 1861-1865</center></u></b></font></html>
+====== Military Operations at Relay House, MD, 1861-1865 ======
 [[relay_timeline|Timeline of Occupation at Relay House]]
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 [[letters_of_dr._bowman_breed|Breed Letters]]
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-{{:{{ :harpers.pdf |CAMP LIFE AT RELAY, Harper's new monthly magazine, April 1862}}
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 /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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 /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.
+/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.
 /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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 /2/1861 - "A Fort at the Relay House. Surveys have been made and ground broken for a fortification of considerable magnitude on the south side of the Patapsco river, at the Relay House, Washington Junction, on the eminence just east of the viaduct, which commands the country and the railroad tracks of the Washington Branch, and Baltimore and Ohio railroad for some distance in either direction. It is propose to name the defense "Fort Dix." - //Baltimore Sun//, 10/2/1861
+/4/1861 - "St. Denis, Relay House, Md., Oct. 4, 1861. I am here at the Relay, a dirty, miserable inn, to build a small battery here. I intended at first to have a large fort, but it was objectionable for so many reasons, that I went on to see Gen. McClellan about it, and he changed the programme for two reasons, that the enemy dare not cross the river now, so late in the season, and because Baltimore isn’t worth spending much money and labor on.
+I am the assistant to Col. Brewerton, U. S. Engnrs. here, in his office, when I am in the city; but here, in this work, I am perfectly independent of everybody. When I get through here, I have got to go up to Ellicott’s Mills and build a work there." - //Paine ancestry. The family of Robert Treat Paine, signer of the Declaration of Independence, including maternal lines by Paine, Sarah Cushing//
 /5/1861 - "Two companies of the **Tenth Maine Regiment**...were on Sunday ordered to the Relay House...yesterday the remaining eight companies proceeded to the same post. The **Fourth Wisconsin ****Regiment**, heretofore stationed along the railroad from the Relay to Annapolis Junction, have been ordered to Baltimore." - //Baltimore Sun//, 11/5/1861