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in about the middle of September under Colonel Summers and Lieutenant-Colonel Duryea.
The Third Maryland was recruited by foreigners in Baltimore City and western Maryland and was commanded by Colonel DeWitt.
The Fourth regiment, commanded by Colonel Sudburgh, was composed of Germans.
The First and Second Maryland artillery companies were commanded by Captains Hampton and Thomson, and the First Maryland cavalry by Lieutenant-Colonel Miller.
These first forces raised for the Union in Maryland were, with the exception of the First regiment, mainly composed of foreigners, aliens by birth and aliens to the institutions, ideals and motives that for nine generations had formed the character of Marylanders.
They were good men, but they were not Marylanders.
They were devoted to the Union, but they had no conception of the force and duty of ‘courage and chivalry.’
The First Maryland under Kenly was the only Maryland regiment on the Union side.
The Confederate Marylanders, on the other hand, embodied the faith and pride of the State.
Not a historic family of Maryland but was represented in the Maryland Line.
Five grandsons of John Eager Howard, of the Cowpens, carried sword or musket in the First Maryland regiment.
A grandson of Charles Carroll of Carrollton rode as a private in Company K, First Virginia cavalry. Colonel Johnson, of the Maryland Line, rode at the head of seventy-two kinsmen, descendants of soldiers of the Revolution, his own flesh and blood!
In the summer of 1862 the First and Second Eastern Shore regiments were raised under Colonels Wallace and Wilkins; the First and Second regiments Potomac home brigade under Colonels Maulsby and Johns; and the Purnell Legion of one regiment infantry, Col. William Louis Schley, one company of artillery and two troops of cavalry; the First Maryland artillery, Captain Alexander, and the Fourth, Sixth, Seventh and Eighth regiments of
Atlanta, Ga. 1899.
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