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No. 7. Three Flags of the Fourth Regiment Infantry, Maryland
Volunteers, recruited under the second call of the President, in July
and August, 1862.
No. 8. Four Flags of the Fifth Regiment Infantry, Maryland
Volunteers, organized on September 12, 1861, at Lafayette Square,
Baltimore.
No. 9. Four Flags of the Sixth Regiment Infantry, Maryland
Volunteers, organized at Baltimore under the second call of the Presi-
dent, from August 12 to September 8, 1862.
No. 10. Three Flags of the Seventh Regiment Infantry, Maryland
Volunteers, organized under the second call of the President, in 1862.
No. II. Four Flags of the Eighth Regiment Infantry, Maryland
Volunteers, organized in Baltimore in August, 1862.
No. 12. Two Flags of the Ninth Regiment Infantry, Maryland
Volunteers, organized at Baltimore, June and July, 1863, to serve for
a period of six months in pursuance of a proclamation from the Presi-
dent calling for additional troops to repel the Confederate armies then
invading Maryland and Pennsylvania. These Flags were returned to the
State of Maryland on March '31, 1905, by the Secretary of War, under
the authority conferred on him by Congress, approved February 28,
1905, entitled a "Joint Resolution to return to the proper authorities
certain Union and Confederate Battle Flags.
No. 13. Two Flags of the Tenth Regiment Infantry, Maryland
Volunteers, organized at Baltimore, June and July, 1863, to serve for
six months.
No, 14. One Flag of the Thirteenth Regiment Infantry, Mary-
land Volunteers, composed of Veterans of the First Regiment Potomac
Home Brigade Infantry Maryland Volunteers and Recruits, organized
March 1st, 1865.
No. 15, Two Flags of the Purnell Legion, Maryland Volunteers,
recruited under the auspices of the Hon. William H. Purnell, at Pikes-
ville Arsenal, between October 31st, 1861, and December 31st, 1861.
The Regiment Legion was raised under special authority of the Secre-
tary of War to serve three years.
No. 16. Two Flags of the Second Regiment Infantry, Potomac
Home Brigade, organized at Cumberland from August 27, to October
31, 1861, to serve for three years.
No. 17. One Flag of the Third Regiment Infantry, Potomac Home
Brigade, organized May 20, 1862, various companies being recruited
in Allegany County, Frederick County, Hagerstown and Baltimore.
The Regiment was recruited to serve three years.
No. 18. One Flag of the First Eastern Shore Infantry, Maryland
Volunteers, organized at Cambridge, September, 1861, to serve for
three years.
No. 19. Two Flags of the Second Eastern Shore Infantry, Mary-
land Volunteers, organized at Chestertown in December, 1861, to serve
three years.
No. 20. Three Flags of the First Regiment, Potomac Home Brigade
Cavalry, "Cole's Cavalry," organized August 10 to November 27, 1861.
This Cavalry assumed the name of its commander, Henry A. Cole, and
the original battalion was recruited in Western Maryland. It partici-
pated. in over seventy-five engagements.
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