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in the meantime Captain W. W. Goldsborough, of the old First, having
recovered from wounds received in the second battle of Manassas, had made his
way to Richmond to accept a First Lieutenancy in the provisional army, and
had received orders to report to Colonel Shields at Camp Lee. The duties to
which he was assigned there did not prove congenial, and after two weeks he
resigned his commission and repaired to Richmond in hopes of organizing
another company, with which to join the Second Maryland in the Valley of
Virginia. In this he was eminently successful, and with the assistance of Thomas
R. Stewart, of Dorchester County, a fine company of over eighty young Mary-
landers, mostly from the lower counties, was formed, and the following officers
elected : Captain, W. \V. Goldsborough ; First Lieutenant, Thomas R. Stewart ;
Second Lieutenant, James A. Davis ; Third Lieutenant, William H. Wrightson.

On the 30TH day of December, 1862, Captain Goldsborough had the proud
satisfaction of marching his company through the streets of Richmond to the
depot, with Volandt's (Baltimore) Band at its head, followed by a large concourse
of people, and on the evening of the 31st it arrived at Staunton, over the Virginia
Central Railroad. From Staunton the company made a rapid march to New-
market, where the Second Maryland was in camp, arriving there at daylight on
the morning of January 2, 1863, just in time to see General Jones' whole command
file through the streets on its way to Moorefield, to which point an expedition
had been planned, and it was a week before the Second Maryland returned, the
men completely broken down by the hardships they had been compelled to
undergo, the expedition having accomplished nothing commensurate with their
sufferings.

With the addition of Company G, the Second Maryland Infantry + now
numbered nearly six hundred men, and a finer body of troops never marched to
the tap of the drum. They were, indeed, worthy successors of the men of the
First, many of whom were in their ranks, and as proudly bore the little flag of
their native State from Winchester, in 1863, to Appomattox, in 1865, as had the
gallant First, from the first Manassas in 1861 to Malvern Hill in 1862.

Shortly after the return of the battalion from the Moorefield expedition,
by order of General Jones, an election was held for Lieutenant-Colonel, when
Bradley T. Johnson was elected, but in justice to the officers who had been
instrumental in forming the battalion, Colonel Johnson magnanimously declined
to accept the command, whereupon Major James R. Herbert was elected, ami
soon after Captain W. W. Goldsborough, of Company G, was appointed Major
by the Secretary of War.

* After Captain Goldsborough was promoted to tbe Majority, First Sergeant G. G. Guillette was made
Lieutenant.

+ It was originally called the First Maryland Battalion, but to distinguish it from the First Maryland
Infantry it was soon designated the Second Mainland Infantry.