1st Maryland Eastern Shore Infantry (U)

== Regimental History and Service Record ==
 
 
 In Brief
Organized at Cambridge, Md., September, 1861. Attached to Dix's Division, Army of the Potomac, to November. 1861. Eastern Shore Maryland and Virginia, Middle Department, to July, 1862. District Eastern Shore, 8th Army Corps, Middle Dept., to January, 1863. 1st Separate Brigade, 8th Army Corps, to June, 1863. Lockwood's Brigade, 8th Army Corps, to July, 1863. 2nd Brigade, 1st Division, 12th Army Corps, Army of the Potomac, July, 1863. 2nd Brigade, Maryland Heights, Division West Virginia, to October, 1863. 3rd Separate Brigade, 8th Army Corps, to June, 1864. 1st Separate Brigade, 8th Army Corps, to September, 1864. Reserve Division, Harper's Ferry, W. Va., to February, 1865.
SERVICE.--Duty at Baltimore, Md., until November, 1861. Expedition to Accomac and Northampton counties November 14-23, 1861. Duty at Baltimore and on the Eastern Shore until June, 1863. 
* Moved with Lockwood to Gettysburg, Pa., June 25-July 2. 
** June 11-August 1, 1863 - The Gettysburg Campaign 
*** July 1-3, 1863 - Battle of Gettysburg, Pennsylvania
** Pursuit of Lee July 5-24. 
* Duty at Maryland Heights, W. Va., July 17 to October 5, 1863. 
* Ordered to the Eastern Shore of Maryland and duty there until February, 1865. 
** August 16, 1862 - Company A mustered out by order of the War Department
* February 23, 1865 - Regiment consolidated with 2nd Maryland Eastern Shore Infantry (U) to form (II) 11th Maryland Infantry (U)
 
 
 1861
THE First Eastern Shore Regiment of Infantry, Maryland Volunteers, was organized at Cambridge, Maryland, in September, 1861, to serve three years.
Company A was mustered out of service August 16, 1862, in accordance with orders from the War Department. On the expiration of the term of service of the regiment the original members (except veterans) were mustered out, and the
organization, composed of veterans and recruits, retained in service until February 23, 1865, when it was consolidated with the 11th Regiment of Infantry.
Companies A, B and G were recruited in Dorchester County, Companies D, E, F and G in Caroline County, Company H in Talbot County, Company I at Baltimore City, and Company K in Somerset County.
The 1st Eastern Shore Regiment of Infantry, immediately after its organization, was assigned to special duty on the Eastern Shore of Maryland.
In November, 1861, it formed a part of General Lock wood's Brigade in its expedition into and pacification of the Counties of Accomac and Northampton, the eastern shore counties of Virginia.
 
 
 1862
 
 
 1863
Upon the invasion of Maryland and Pennsylvania by General Robert E. Lee's Confederate Army in June, 1863, the 1st Eastern Shore Regiment of Infantry asked to be sent to the Army of the Potomac at the front, and, with General Lockwood's Brigade, the regiment was transported to Baltimore, and thence marched to the battlefield of Gettysburg, which it reached on the morning of July 3, 1863, and immediately went into action with the 12th Army Corps on Culp's Hill, where it did good service.
After the battle of Gettysburg the 1st Regiment, Eastern Shore Infantry, continued with the Army of the Potomac until Lee's Confederate Army was driven out of Maryland, when, after a brief duty on the upper Potomac, the regiment again returned to the Eastern Shores of Maryland and Virginia, where it continued in the performance of special duty until its consolidation with 11th Regiment of Infantry, Maryland Volunteers.
 
 
 1864
 
 
 1865
During its term of service the 1st Regiment, Eastern Shore Infantry, marched seven hundred and sixty (760) miles, was transported by rail two hundred and eighty-three (283) miles, and by water one thousand three hundred and twenty-three (1323) miles.
The death list of the 1st Regiment, Eastern Shore Infantry, during its term of service was as follows: Killed in battle, nine (9) enlisted men ; died of disease, wounds, etc., fifty-two (52) enlisted men; or an aggregate loss by death of sixty-one (61).
 
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== Regimental Roster ==
 
 
 Field and Staff Officers
 
 
 Regimental Band
 
 
 Company A
 
 
 Company B
 
 
 Company C
 
 
 Company D
 
 
 Company E
 
 
 Company F
 
 
 Company G
 
 
 Company H
 
 
 Company I
 
 
 Company K
* Mystery: why is almost all of this company dishonorably discharged on July 2, 1863?
 
 
 Additional Officers
* NOTE: [These] officers, having served in other regiments by reason, of consolidation, etc., were temporarily assigned to the 1st Eastern Shore Infantry Maryland Volunteers, and were finally transferred to the 11th Regiment Infantry Maryland Volunteers, prior to muster-out.
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== Regiment Statistical Information ==
* Regiment lost during service 9 Enlisted men killed and mortally wounded and 52 Enlisted men by disease. Total 61. 
== Legacy ==
== Notes ==
== Sources == 
* (Pages 827, 1232)
* (Pages 606-628)
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