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2nd Maryland Company A

	Soldier	Rank
	Captain Korbal
	First Sergeant Wolf Allen
	Sergeant John
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The regiment was raised in Baltimore from May through October 1861, by Colonel John Sommer. In the spring of 1862, the regiment traveled to New Bern, North Carolina, where it was incorporated into Maj. Gen. Ambrose Burnside's IX Corps of the Army of the Potomac. In July, the Second Maryland was dispatched along with the rest of Burnside's command to aid in Maj. Gen. George McClellan's foundering Peninsula Campaign outside of Richmond, arriving shortly after the Battle of Cedar Mountain.

On August 18, 1862, the Second raided a Confederate signal station at Clark Mountain, Virginia, which resulted in the discovery of a large number of Confederate troops in the area. At the Second Battle of Bull Run (August 28–30, 1862), the regiment saw its first large-scale action. On the afternoon of the 29th, the Second Maryland, as part of James Nagle's brigade in Burnside's IX Corps, assaulted troops under the command of Confederate General T. J. "Stonewall" Jackson, entrenched in an uncompleted railroad cut. After elements of the brigade pulled back in the face of a Confederate flanking attack, the Second Maryland found itself surrounded on three sides. The unit fought its way back to Union lines, but at the cost of nearly 200 men killed, wounded or captured in scarcely 15 minutes of combat. At the Battle of Antietam (September 17, 1862), the Second was again called to assault a well-entrenched Confederate force. Union commander George B. McClellan had tasked Burnside with opening up a southern front to the battle to divert Confederate forces from a simultaneous attack taking place on the north end of the field. Burnside attempted to throw his corps across Rohrbach's bridge, a small stone crossing henceforth known as "Burnside's Bridge." The crossing was defended by 400 Georgians under the command of Confederate Brig. Gen. Robert Toombs, whose men had dug themselves into the 100-foot high wooded bluff which overlooked the west side of the bridge. After one abortive attempt to take the bridge with Col. George Crook's Ohio Brigade—which resulted in skirmishers of the 11th Ohio Infantry taking 139 casualties—Burnside ordered Nagle's brigade to assault the position. After traveling for several hundred yards down a road running parallel to the creek, and open to flanking fire the entire way, Nagle's brigade, with the 2nd Maryland and 6th New Hampshire in the vanguard, broke before reaching the bridge. The Marylanders sustained 67 casualties out of an active force of less than 300 men. They fell prey to the Confederate sharpshooters and artillery, and the attack fell apart.

After Antietam, the regiment's acting commander during the engagements at Second Manassas and Antietam, Lt. Col. Jacob Duryée, resigned after the Second's appointed commander, Thomas Allard, reported for duty. By this time, the regiment numbered less than 150 men out of the 900 that had left Baltimore less than a year earlier. The Second saw limited action at Fredericksburg, where they were he

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Company Records	Date
Bilbo's role was changed from Enlisted to NCO by Korbal	2022-06-15
John was promoted from Corporal to Sergeant by Korbal	2022-06-14
Bilbo was promoted from Private to Corporal by Korbal	2022-06-14
Wolf Allen's role was changed from NCO to Company Command by Korbal	2022-06-14
Wolf Allen was promoted from Sergeant to First Sergeant by Korbal	2022-06-14
Korbal was promoted from 2nd Lieutenant to Captain by Korbal	2022-06-14
Captain Davie Parker was honourably discharged from 2nd Maryland Company A by Korbal	2022-06-14
John's role was changed from No Role to NCO by Korbal	2022-05-26
John was promoted from Recruit to Corporal by Korbal	2022-05-26
John was enlisted into 2nd Maryland Company A	2022-05-26
2nd Maryland Company A recieved the right to the company name	2022-05-26
John volunteered to join 2nd Maryland Company A	2022-05-26
Steve's role was changed from Section Command to NCO by Korbal	2022-05-26
Steve's role was changed from No Role to Section Command by Korbal	2022-05-26
Steve was promoted from Recruit to Corporal by Korbal	2022-05-26
Steve was enlisted into 2nd Maryland Company A	2022-05-26
Steve volunteered to join 2nd Maryland Company A	2022-05-24
Recruit Linus Barnes was dishonourably discharged from 2nd Maryland Company A by Korbal	2022-05-23
GhostTech42 was promoted from Recruit to Private by Korbal	2022-05-01
Renix was promoted from Recruit to Private by Korbal	2022-05-01

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