Produced by Richard Tonsing and the Online Distributed Proofreading Team at http://www.pgdp.net (This file was produced from images generously made available by the Library of Congress) [Illustration: Maj. Gen. ARNOLD ELZEY.] THE MARYLAND LINE IN THE CONFEDERATE STATES ARMY. BY W. W. GOLDSBOROUGH, _Major in the late C. S. A._ BALTIMORE: KELLY, PIET & COMPANY. 1869. Entered according to Act of Congress, in the year 1869, by KELLY, PIET & CO., In the Clerk’s Office of the District Court for the District of Maryland. ------------------------------------------------------------------------ Dedication. TO MARYLAND’S GALLANT SON, _Major-General Isaac R. Trimble,_ _THE SOLDIER “WITHOUT FEAR AND WITHOUT REPROACH,”_ These Pages are Dedicated, _With the sincerest hope that his many Virtues and Lofty Heroism may be Emulated by the Rising Generation of his Native State_. CONTENTS Dedication. Introduction. THE FIRST MARYLAND INFANTRY. THE SECOND MARYLAND INFANTRY. THE FIRST MARYLAND BATTALION OF CAVALRY. CHANGES In the First Maryland Battalion of Cavalry. RECAPITULATION. State of Battalion at the Close of the War. CASUALTIES Of the Officers as near as can be remembered. THE BALTIMORE LIGHT ARTILLERY. ATKINS’ BRIGADE AT SECOND MANASSAS. Introduction. Almost four years have elapsed since the surrender of General Lee at Appomattox Court House, and as yet nothing has been presented to the world to show the prominent part taken in the Great Rebellion by the sons of Maryland. It is a glorious and important page in her honored history, and future generations seem likely to look in vain for a record of the patient suffering and heroic achievements of their forefathers when struggling for their rights against Yankee tyranny and oppression, and which was not surpassed by their sires of the Revolution of ’76. Thus believing, the author has yielded to the importunities of many of the officers and men of the several commands that composed the young “Maryland Line,” and presents to the public a little book describing briefly its operations during those four eventful years, and to which they can refer, and by which future historians may be in a measure guided. That it is written by a feeble pen, and by one unaccustomed to such work, will be seen at a glance, and he therefore craves the indulgence of a generous people.