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+====== The 10th Maine Infantry in Howard County ======
+Service at Relay House and Annapolis Junction, 11/3/1861-3/8/1862\\
-Service at Relay House, 11/3/1861-3/8/1862\\
 [[10th Maine Primary Sources|Primary Sources]]\\
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 Like many other recently organized units, the 10th Maine was detailed for guard duty while they drilled, equipped, and prepared for war. On October 6, the 10th left Portland and proceeded to Amboy, New Jersey onboard the steamer, //State of Maine//. From there the traveled to Baltimore by rail. They arrived in Baltimore on the 8th and encamped in Patterson Park. They remained there until early November, when the unit was ordered to the Relay House, at present day Elkridge, Maryland.
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 Writing in the //Lewiston Daily Evening Journal// on November 9, "S" recounts the regiment's arrival at the Relay House, where they were to replace the 4th Wisconsin:
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 "Major Walker took Companies B and F, and went out on the Baltimore and Ohio R. R. posting B at the Relay House, and F at Annapolis Junction, relieving companies of the 4th Wisconsin."
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+//Camp Kelsey, near Annapolis Junction, Md, Sachse (E.) & Co., LC-DIG-pga-08130//
 A week later the regiment was divided even more, Company B was sent to "a place without a name" five miles up the Washington Branch, Company D was sent to Elkridge Landing; G to the Hanover Switch, and A to Jessup's Cut. These units were moved around on a regular basis, covering the entire railroad from Baltimore to the Annapolis Junction. South of the Annapolis Junction, the 1st Michigan patrolled. North of the Relay House was the 60th New York.
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 "Towards noon word was passed that the provisions had arrived, when a grand rush was made, and the boxes handed round to the eager expectants. They were quickly taken into the tents and emptied of their contents - turkey, chicken, bread, cake, apples, preserves, pie - veritable New England pumpkin pies! - &c., &c., in endless profusion...So ended the day - literally a day of thanksgiving and praise, and of cheer to the hearts of the soldiers of the Maine Tenth. God bless the women of Maine!"
+Apart from Thanksgiving dinner, not all meals were as eagerly anticipated and enjoyed. Charles W. Anderson, of the 10th Maine, stated "We have three cooks, and I can go into the cook tent and shit 3 piles that will make better cooks than they are..." Anderson did acknowledge that the soldiers lived better than some locals - "We live like dukes to what the folks does here, I tell you. For they come and beg the pieces of bread that we have left after we are done eating. That is the way with the South—the poor is poor, and they are plenty too, I tell you."
 The 10th Maine's new campground had also been formerly occupied by the 4th Wisconsin, who had started constructing a fort, to be called Fort Dix. The 10th Maine finished the fort, which soon housed three rifled cannon and two howitzers. The location of the fort was "on an eminence about three hundred yards west from the entire settlement" of Elkridge.