The Patapsco Guards - Independant Maryland Volunteers - Civil War

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The Patapsco Guards
Independent Company
of
Maryland Volunteer Infantry
By Daniel Toomey
Toomey Press, Baltimore MD, 1993
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Condition : Paperback. Very Good Condition.
Spine has some sunning, but otherwise clean.
May be unread - it seems like it has not been opened much, if at all.
30 pages, 1 map and a number of portraits.
Full roster, including enlistment and discharge dates, and "remarks."
I had two copies, one sold - this is my last one.
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Written and published by noted historian Dan Toomey, of Baltimore, Maryland.
Well done, with notes / bibliographic references for further reading.
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From The Civil War in Maryland Website
HISTORICAL NOTES:
The Patapsco Guards was organized at Ellicotts Mills, Maryland, September 25, 1861. The company drew recruits from Ellicotts Mills and Catonville. Through the course of the war, they moved from there to Harpers Ferry (now West Virginia); York, PA; Gettysburg, PA; Harrisburg, PA; and Chambersburg, PA.
FIELD OFFICERS:
McGowan, Thomas S. - Captain
Timanus, Jacob - First Lieutenant
Bewley, Lemuel - Second Lieutenant
ASSIGNMENTS
Organized at Ellicott’s Mills, Maryland, September 25, 1861.
Railroad Brigade, Middle Department, to July, 1862.
Railroad Bridge, 8th Army Corps, Middle Department, to September, 1862.
Unassigned, 8th Army Corps, to January, 1863.
Attached to Dix's Command, Baltimore, Md., to March, 1863
2nd Separate Brigade, 8th Army Corps, to June, 1863.
York, Pa., Dept. of the Susquehanna, to December, 1863.
Dept. of the Susquehanna to August, 1865.
SERVICE:
Support services at military hospital in York, PA
Support services at the field hospital at Gettysburg, PA
Provost guards
Harrisburg, PA
Chambersburg, PA
Escorting injured Confederate prisoners to points of exchange
Combat duty
Harpers Ferry, WV
Wrightsville, PA
Chambersburg, PA
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