Maryland State Monument, Part 2, at Antietam National Battlefield Union Monuments

Maryland Sate Monument, Part 2

Dedicated:	May 30, 1900
Location:	Across the Hagerstown Turnpike from the Dunker Church
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First Maryland (Dement's)
Battery C.S.A.
Organized at Fredericksburg, Va.
July 1861.

Battles engaged in:
Mechanicsville; Gaines Mills; Malvern Hill; Groveton; Manassas; Harpers Ferry; Antietam; Fredericksburg, December, 1862, Mar. 1863; Gettysburg; Locust Grove; Payne's Farm; Cold Harbor; Petersburg; Appomattox.

Officers
Captin R. Snowden Andrews
Captain William F. Dement
Lieut. John Gale Lieut. Hill
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Third Regiment Maryland
Infantry, U.S.A.
Organized at Baltimore, Md., June, 1861
Re-enlisted and Veteranized
February 1, 1864
Mustered out July 31, 1865.

Battles engaged in:
Cedar Mountain; Antietam; Chancellorsville; Gettysburg; Wilderness; Spotsylvania; North Anna; Cold Harbor; Petersburg; Battle of the Crater; Poplar Springs Church; Assault on Petersburg, April 3, 1865.

Field Officers
Captain Alonzo Snow
Captain Lucius A. Gerry
1st Lt. Theodore J. Vanneman
1st Lieut. James H. Kidd
2nd Lieut. John M. Bullock
2nd Lieut. Leonard S. Parker
2nd lieut. William Taylor
2nd Lieut. Enos T. Hall

Second Regiment Maryland
Infantry, U.S.A.
Organized at Baltimore, Md., June 1861
Re-enlisted and Veteranized January 1, 1864 Mustered out July 25, 1865.

Battled engaged in:
Groveton; Bull Run; Chantilly; South Mountain; Antietam; Fredericksburg; Blue Springs; Campbell's Station; Siege of Knoxville; Spotsylvania; Totopotomoy; Cold Harbor; Petersburg; Battle of the Crater; Siege of Petersburg; Weldon Railroad; Poplar Springs Church; Hatcher's Run; Assault of Petersburg.

Command and Field Officers
Colonel John Sommers,
Oct. 8, 1861 to April 21, 1862
Brevet Brig. Gen. J. Eugene Duryee
to Sept. 22, 1862
Colonel Thomas B. Allard to
Jan. 19, 1864
Maj. David F. DeWitt
Lieut. Colonel Henry Howard
to July 30, 1864
Maj. Andrew B. Brunner
Brevet Colonel Benj. F. Taylor to
July 25, 1865
Maj. James H. Wilson

Antietam
Battlefield Commision
of Maryland
Benjamin F. Taylor, Second Maryland Infanty, U.S.A.
Joseph M. Sudsburg, Third Maryland Inafantry, U.S.A.
George R. Graham, Fifth Maryland
Infantry, U.S.A.
William Gibson, Purnell Legion, Maryland Infantry, U.S.A.
William H. Parker, Battery "A" First Md. Light Artillery, U.S.A.
Theodore J. Vanneman, Battery "B" First Md. Light Artillery, U.S.A.
Henry Kyd Douglas, Staff Gen. Thomas J. Jackson, C.S.A.
Osmun Latrobe, Staff Gen. James
Longstreet, C.S.A.
William F. Dement, First Maryland
Battery, C.S.A.
Lloyd Lowndes, Governor of Maryland

Erected by the State of Maryland to her Sons, Who on this field offered their lives in maintenance of their Principles