Next Prev Next Enter Your Search Terms Below Putting your search in quotes will search on the entire phrase - like "15th New Jersey". Limit to the first 10 20 50All results. Fox's Regimental Losses EEGIMENTAL LOSSES IN THE CIVIL WAR. LIST OF REGIMENTS IN THE UNION ARMIES, ETC.— CONTINUED. *Served one hundred days. tServed through the war. The Maryland Brigade belonged to the Second Division, Fifth Corps, and was composed of the ist, 4th, 7th, and 8th Maryland Infantry, together with the infantry command known as the Purnell (Md.) Legion. The latter organization had served previously in the Twelfth Corps; and the brigade, itself, before joining the Fifth Corps, had served in the Eighth, and also in the First Corps. The 6th Maryland had also served in this brigade for a few months. The principal losses of the Maryland Brigade occurred while on Grant's Virginia campaigns of 1864-65, during which it particularly distinguished itself, taking an active part in all the battles of the Fifth Corps. Colonel Dushane (ist Md.), the commander of the brigade, was killed at the battle of the Weldon Railroad, August 19, 1864. Different regiments bearing the same number appear in the Maryland line, owing to the ist and zd Maryland Eastern Shore ; and the ist, 2d, and 3(1 Maryland, Potomac Home Brigade. The designation of the ist Maryland, Potomac Home Brigade (Infantry), was changed to i3th Maryland Infantry, April 8, 1865. There was a cavalry regiment, also, known as the ist Maryland, Potomac Home Brigade. The ist Maryland Infantry, Potomac Home Brigade, was attached to the Twelfth Corps in 1863, and was hotly engaged at Gettysburg, where it fought with the ist Maryland, C. S. A. _15251
