The aegis & intelligencer. [volume] (Bel Air, Md.) 1864-1923, 1888-07-13
miscellaneous.
The FOrtieth Regiment NJ. NJ. of Har.
ford County, 1SOS-IS14.


1t will be proper to preface the papers re
lating to the operations OF the 40lh regiment
in 1914, with a few explanatory remarks
The British captured Washington on tn,
24rh of August and burned the public build
ings. 1t was pretty well known that Balt
more would be their next object of attack
and although half n million dollars had nj.
ready been expended in erecting defences fol
the city, three days after the capture of the
national capital the Baltimore Committee o
Safety appealed to all citizens who were ex
empt from military duty to aid in construct
ing additional works. They were to repair
at once to Hampstead Hill, called also Lou
donslagers Hill, Che site OF the present Pat.
tersOn Park on the eastern side of the city
with all the wheelbarrows, pick-aXes, spades
and shovels which they could procure" and
go to work. All classes responded with
alaCrity, even old men and boys marched
daily to the laboriOus task assigned them
Two lines of breastworks were constructed
from llarris's Creek northward across Hamp
stead Hill, about one milein length, and were
manned by some 1900 militia who haC
hurredIy assembled from various parts Of the
State
The first, in date of the Hays papers bear
ing upon the subject runs thus:
ITO Thomas A. Hays, Quarermaster of the
10th reg't, NJ. M.-SIR: | wish you to come
forward, ifyou have not had orders before this
time, TO make the necessary supplies for the
10th rcg't. ANDREW TURNER,
Lieut.. Col 10th Reg't NJ. NJ,
Aug. 2SLh, 1914.
the regiment was probably already on its
march to Baltimore. The Quartermastei
seems from the following entry in his ration
book 10 have come forward" as directed
with all possible speed. "Mr. John Wat
sons team, with four horses, was pressed in
the service Of the United States on the 2Sll
of August last for the use of the 10th regi
ment, NJ. NJ, and is still in the service. liz
lives about twenty miles from Baltimore
Somewhere in Hartford county, no doubt
True copy.
THOMAS A. HAYS, Quartermaster.
A "Prov.son Return for detachment Of
Maryland militia in the service of the U. S
under the command of Lieut. Col Andrew
Turner, stationed on Hampstead Hill for two
days, commencing the Goth and ending 30th
Aug. 1914, shows that five of the companies
consisting of Is officers and 155 prvaics, had
reached the fertilization, probably on the
Goth, though possibly on the day before
This detachment constituted the first batta-
lion, 7th reg't, and was commanded by Mnior
Rogers Street,. Another provision return
Aug. Both and 3lst, for III second detach.
ment OF the VI. NJ. in the service of the State
under the command of Andrew Turner
Lieut.. Col ofthe 10th reg't," shows that this
detachment comprised 10 officers and 227
privatcs and constituted the Cd battalion
commanded by Major Benjamin Richardson
Why one of the battalions should be designat-
ed as "in the service of the United States
and the other as sin the service of the State, u
| am unableto say.
"RdtiOHS rhtch infantry are entitled 10.
captain entitled 10 three rations; Lieu.
tenants to two; ensign to two. A ration is
Il pounds of beef, or I pounds of pork ; IS
ounces of loaf bread Tor flour) or pound
of navy bread one gill of whisky; and at the
rate of 1 pounds, soap, quarts vinegar
2 quarts salt and pound OF candles to every
100 men"
Aug. 3Oth 90 camp kettles and Sc mess
pans, were issued TO the 1st Battalion and
on the 30th and ilst, spades, axes, and straw,
(probably for bcdding,) were issued to the
regt.
From the numerous other provision
returns, acquisitions for rations, loose
memoranda, &C., | have been able
to compile the following concerning
the organization Of the reg't as il
stood in the trenches upon Hampstead Hill
The list, however, although believed to be
correct as far as it goes, is very far from be.
ing complete. For example, the name of the
Colonel, whom he may have been, does not
once appear throughout the brefcampaign. Ii
Henry Dorsey was the Colonel (who was the
Lieut.. Colonel in 1907 it may be pretty
safely set down, that, whatever was
the cause of his absence, it was not
want of personal courage. That stood the
critical Test in his famous duel with Abra.
ham Jarrett on the historic duelng ground
of Abingdon district, the Bladensburg OF
Hartford county; and the Colonel carried in
his body to the grave the ball then shot into
him.
Officers of the regiment; Lieut.. Col. An
drew Turner, commanding; Adjutant Israel
D.. Maulshy; Qnartermaster, Thomas A
Hays; First Battalion, Major Rogers
STREET., commanding. Company officers oil
the First Battalion, Capt. Joshua NJ Amosa
Amoss. 40 prvates Capt. Corbin Grafton
Lieut.. James Watt; Ensign, Isaac Harry
i (42 privates,) Capt. John Smithson; Lieut.
Edward Tracey; Ensign, Philip Doran. (39
privatesO Capt. James Rampley. (3S pri
vates,) Capt. John Turner, Lieut.. - John
son, Ensign - Wright (54 privates) Whole
number Of privates in first battalion. 21S
Second Battalion Major Benjamin Rich.
ardson, commanding Company officers Of
Second Battalion, Capt. Morris Malsby; This
own spelling of his name) (65 privates
Capt. Joshua Amoss, of Rob't,; (4S prvates,
Capt. Henry G. Bussey; Lieut.. John Cald
well, elsewhere designated as Sergeant, (2t
privates,) Capt. Benjamin Magness, (5S pri
vates) Capt. Bennett Love; Lieut.. Solomon
Ady. (43 privates) Whole number of pri
Yates in second battalion 800. Aggregate O.