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Southern Historical Society Papers, Volume 5. (ed. Reverend J. William Jones), The First Maryland cavalry , C. S. A. (search)
The First Maryland cavalry, C. S. A. by Rev. Horace Edwin Hayden.
In the March, 1877, number of the Southern Historical Society Papers, page 136, Mr. Lamar Holliday, quite unintentionally, I am satisfied, fails to do full justice to the First Maryland Cavalry, C. S. A. The impression conveyed by his article is that the First Maryland Cavalry was not in the Confederate service until its organization as a battalion, in November, 1862.
A fuller history of this command will, I am sure, interest those who survive.
The facts I give are from my own knowledge and from my diary, kept during the first two years of the war.
Before 1861 there were organized in Howard county, Maryland, two cavalry companies of from 75 to 100 men each.
They were composed of the choicest material of the county.
In one company there were seventeen members of the Dorsey family; in the other company, eleven members of the same family.
The first company organized was named the Howard County Dragoons, comman
Southern Historical Society Papers, Volume 29. (ed. Reverend J. William Jones), Memoir of Jane Claudia Johnson . (search)
Southern Historical Society Papers, Volume 29. (ed. Reverend J. William Jones), A Maryland Warrior and hero. (search)