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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 Vol-
unteers, organized at Baltimore, June and July, 1863, to serve for
a period of six months in pursuance of a proclamation from the
President calling for additional troops to repel the Confederate armies
then invading Maryland and Pennsylvania. These Flags were re-
turned to the State of Maryland on March 31, 1908, by the Secretary
of War, under the authority conferred on him by Congress, approved
February 28, 1906, 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, Maryland
Volunteers, composed of Veterans of the First Regiment Potomac
Home Brigade Infantry Maryland Volunteers and Recruits, organized
March 1,1865..
No. 15. Two Flag's of the Purnell Legion, Maryland Volunteers,
recruited under the auspices of William H. Purnell, at Pikesville
Arsenal, between October 31, 1861 and December 31, 1861. The Legion
was raised under special authority of the Secretary 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..
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