3rd Maryland Regiment The 3rd Maryland Regiment was an infantry regiment of the Continental Army during the American Revolutionary War . It served from 1776 to 1783 , mostly in the Middle Atlantic Region of the conflict . Background . The 3rd Maryland Regiment was organized on 27 March 1776 of eight companies from Anne Arundel , Prince George ' s , Talbot , Harford and Somerset counties of the colony of Maryland . The regiment was authorized on 16 September 1776 for service with the Continental Army and was assigned on 27 December 1776 to the main element . 1st Maryland Brigade . On 22 May 1777 it was assigned to the 1st Maryland Brigade . The regiment was re - organized to nine companies on 12 May 1779 . On 5 April 1780 the 1st Maryland Brigade was re - assigned to the Southern Department . The regiment was relieved from the 1st Maryland Brigade on 1 January 1781 . It was assigned to Gist ' s Brigade on 24 September 1781 in the main Continental Army . Three days later ( 27 September 1781 ) Gist ' s Brigade was re - assigned to the Southern Department . On 4 January 1782 the regiment was re - assigned from Gist ' s Brigade to the Maryland Brigade in the Southern Department . The regiment would see action during the Battle of Brandywine , Battle of Germantown , Battle of Monmouth , Battle of Camden , Battle of Guilford Court House , Battle of Eutaw Springs and the Battle of Yorktown . The regiment disbanded on 1 January 1783 at Charleston , South Carolina . Under Gist ' s command . Gist became colonel in command of the 3rd Maryland on 10 December 1776 . On 22 May 1777 , George Washington assigned the regiment to the 1st Maryland Brigade together with the 1st Delaware Regiment , and the 1st , 5th , 7th Maryland Regiment s . During the Battle of Brandywine on 11 September 1777 , both the popular brigade commander William Smallwood and Gist were on detached duty recruiting the Maryland militia . This left the disliked Frenchman Philippe Hubert Preudhomme de Borre as the senior brigadier . The regiment was in John Sullivan ' s division on the right flank , guarding Brinton ' s Ford while other elements of the division guarded three upstream fords . Finding that the greater part of Sir William Howe ' s army had marched into the right rear of his division , Sullivan had to march cross country in an attempt to block the move . Finding his division in an awkward position , Sullivan rode off to confer with Adam Stephen and Lord Stirling and ordered De Borre to shift the division to the right . The inept Frenchman botched the evolution , throwing the troops into disorder just as they came under attack by the Brigade of Guards . According to John Hoskins Stone , commander of the 1st Maryland , only his regiment and the 3rd put up a creditable fight . As they tried to resist the oncoming British , the confused 2nd Brigade mistakenly fired a volley into the two regiments from behind . The badly mishandled Marylanders then fled . Gist commanded the 3rd Maryland at the Battle of Germantown . He led the 3rd Maryland until 9 January 1779 when he was promoted brigadier general in command of the 2nd Maryland Brigade . Battle of Monmouth . At Monmouth , the regiment was commanded by Colonel Mordecai Gist while its second - in - command was Lieutenant Colonel Nathaniel Ramsey . Ramsey was detached to Colonel James Wesson ' s detachment under Brigadier General Anthony Wayne . Early in the battle , Wesson was wounded and Ramsey assumed command of his detachment . Surprised by a sudden British counterattack , the American advance guard began to retreat . Washington personally asked Ramsey and Colonel Walter Stewart to hold off the British while he arranged the main line of defense . The two officers agreed and Wayne deployed their soldiers in a nearby wood . As the Brigade of Guards came up to their hidden position , the Americans opened fire into their flank . The Guards charged and cleared the wood after a tough fight in which they lost 40 casualties including Colonel Henry Trelawney wounded . Stewart was shot and carried off . The retreating Americans were set upon in the open by a troop of the 16th Light Dragoons . A dragoon rode up to the unhorsed Ramsey and fired at him with his pistol . The weapon misfired and Ramsey attacked the trooper with his sword , dragged him from his horse , and tried to ride away . Surrounded by dragoons , Ramsey was badly wounded and left for dead . Later , the British picked him up as a prisoner . Impressed by his bravery , the British commander Sir Henry Clinton paroled Ramsey the next day . Ramsey was not exchanged until December 1780 . External links . < br > < br >