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which were then forming, while others entered the cavalry and artillery.
The total length of service of the First regiment was fourteen to sixteen months.
Second Maryland infantry.
The Second Maryland infantry was organized in the fall of 1862, and numbered six companies.
Two other companies joined them afterward, one in about two months and the other about a year after their organization.
They were in service up to the surrender of
General Lee at
Appomattox.
During the
fall and
winter of 1862-3 they were attached to
General Jones' cavalry brigade, and were on duty in the
Valley of Virginia; being constantly on the move, and made two very severe marches to
Moorefield in
West Virginia.
In June, 1863, they joined
General Early at
Kernstown, and opened the battle at that point preparatory to attacking
Winchester.
That General, in his official report of the
Gettysburg campaign, thus mentions this fact:
I found Lieutenant-Colonel Herbert, of the Maryland line, with his battalion of infantry, the battery of Maryland artillery, and a portion of the battalion of Maryland cavalry, occupying the ridge between Bartonsville and Kernstown, and engaged in occasional skirmishing with a portion of the enemy, who had taken position near Kernstown. * * * I will here state that when our skirmishers had advanced to Bower's Hill, Major Goldsborough, of the Maryland battalion, with the skirmishers of the battalion had advanced into the outskirts of the town of Winchester; but fearing that the enemy would shell the town from the main fort, I ordered him back. * * I must also commend the gallantry of Lieutenant-Colonel Herbert and Major Goldsborough, of the Maryland line, and their troops.
General Ewell also, in his official report of the
Gettysburg campaign, gives additional evidence of the existence of the command.
He says: “On the 13th, I sent
Early's division and
Colonel Brown's artillery battalion (under
Captain Dance) to
Newtown, on the
Valley pike, where they were joined by the
Maryland battalion of infantry,
Lieutenant-Colonel Herbert, and the Baltimore light artillery,
Captain Griffin.”
Immediately after the
battle of Winchester, the Second Maryland joined
General George H. Steuart's brigade, and took an active and distinguished part in the
battle of Gettysburg, assisted in the capture of the
Federal breastworks at
Culp's Hill, which they held all
