The Civil War in the East

1st Maryland Potomac Home Brigade Infantry

 

The First Maryland Potomac Home Brigade lost 3 officers and 42 enlisted men killed or mortally wounded and 1 officer and 85 enlisted men by disease during the Civil War.

 

It is honored by a monument at Gettysburg.

1861

August 15 to
December 13

Organized at Frederick City, Md.; Attached to Banks' Division, Army of the Potomac; Railroad guard duty

1862

March, 1862

Unassigned, Banks' 5th Corps, and Dept. of the Shenandoah

March 7-12

Advance on Winchester, Va.

March 27

Strasburg

April - May

Railroad District, Middle Department; Guarding Baltimore & Ohio Railroad

May 24

Concentrated at Harper's Ferry

May 27

Action at Loudon Heights

May 28-30

Defense of Harper's Ferry

July

Attached to Railroad District, 8th Army Corps, Middle Dept.; Guard Baltimore & Ohio Railroad

September

Attached to Annapolis, Md., 8th Army Corps

September 4

Action at Monocacy Aqueduct

September 5

Poolesville; Concentrated at Sandy Hook and march to Harper's Ferry

September 12-15

Siege of Harper's Ferry

September 13

Maryland Heights

September 14-15

Harper's Ferry

September 15

Surrendered

September 16

Paroled and sent to Annapolis, Md.

1863

March

Attached to 1st Separate Brigade, 8th Army Corps; when exchanged, assigned to duty on the Potomac in Southern Maryland

June

Attached to Lockwood's Brigade, 8th Army Corps

June 14

Martinsburg; At point Lookout

June

Joined Lockwood's Brigade

June 25-July 2

March to Gettysburg

July, 1863

Attached to 2nd Brigade, 1st Division, 12th Army Corps, Army of the Potomac

July 2-3

Battle of Gettysburg

The regiment was commanded by Colonel William P. Maulsby.

 

From the monument: "Effective strength 739. Casualties, killed 23, wounded 80, missing 1, total 104"

July 5-24

Pursuit of Lee

July

Attached to 2nd Brigade, Maryland Heights, Division West Virginia

July

Guard duty on Baltimore Ohio Railroad in Maryland and Virginia

December

Attached to 2nd Brigade, 1st Division, West Virginia

1864

April

Attached to Reserve Division, Harper's Ferry, W. Va.

June and July

Operations against Early's invasion of Maryland

June 29

Duffield Station

July 9

Battle of Monocacy

July 1864

Moved from Monocacy to Harper's Ferry, W. Va., and duty in that district

August - December

Non-veterans and recruits mustered out at expiration of terms

1865

January

Attached to 3rd Brigade, 3rd Division, West Virginia

April 8

Recruited to a full Regiment and designation changed to 13th Maryland Infantry