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MARYLAND MANUAL. 371 BAflLE FLAGS OF MARYLAND. In the Flag Room, State House, Annapolis. No. 1. “Old Glory,” believed to he the oldest United States Flag in existence, and earned by the American troops in the Revolutionary War. It was made in accordaace with the Act of Congress, June 14, 1777. No. 2. Flag carried by the Union Volunteers of Baltimore during the War of 1812-1814. The Union Volunteers were attached to the Fifth Regiment of Maryland Militia. This regiment served at Fort MeHenry and North Point on September 12, 1814. No. 3. The “Old Defenders’ Flag,” the original fing adopted by the Old Defenders’ Association of the War of 1812, and presented to the State of Maryland by the Society of the War of 1812. Federal Army flags No. 4. Three flags of the First Regiment Infantry, Maryland Volunteers of the Federal Army, a regiment that served throughout the Civil War. No. 5. Five Flags of the Second Maryland Infantry, Maryland Volunteers in the Civil War. Organized under the President’s call of May 3, 1861. No. 6. Four Flags of the Third Regiment Infantry, Maryland Volunteers, recruited under call from the President. The recruiting began June 18th, 1861. 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. 11. 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. |
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