Third Maryland Company B US.

Hello everyone,

This Saturday the 16th is our 3rd Maryland company meeting to go over this year's opportunities and schedule of events.

The meeting is being held at:

11:30 am

Venturas Restaurant & Pizza

100 E Main st

Fairfield PA 17320

If you haven't already, please let me know if you plan to attend.

This will be a great chance to catch up with everyone, enjoy some food and get ready for the coming season.

Hope to see you there.

Capt. John Zabawa

3rd Maryland Co. B

Dr. Seth Rogers was the surgeon of the 1st South Carolina Volunteers, later renamed the 33rd USCT. Assisting him in his duties was a formerly enslaved attendant:

"My young orderly, who should be named Ariel, remarked today that he had all his life been accustomed to take his master’s family out in a boat, till one day he thought he would take his own family off in the same way. He is from Florida."

Source:
Letter dated Sunday, Jan. 4, 1863, "War-time Letters from Seth Rogers, M.D. Surgeon of the First South Carolina Afterwards the Thirty-third U.S.C.T. 1862-1863," via Florida History Online, University of North Florida, accessed July 31, 2020, .

Image credit:
"Fugitive Slaves escaping to the protection of our army at Wilmington - Scene on the Cape Fear River," in Frank Leslie's Illustrated Newspaper, June 17, 1865, page 205, via The House Divided Project at Dickinson College, accessed July 31, 2020, .

We hope to see you this Saturday!

On February 5, 2014, the Potomac Mills ruins in Washington County was listed with Maryland’s National Register Properties in cooperation with the West Virginia's National Register Properties.

The Potomac Mills complex was established in 1826 as a merchant grain mill. The water-powered mills processed the grains of wheat and corn close to where they were grown in the Shenandoah Valley, which made it easier to transport them to port cities, such as Georgetown and Baltimore.

In 1829, Henry Boteler and George Reynolds adapted the Potomac Mill complex to produce hydraulic cement to be used in the construction of the Chesapeake & Ohio Canal, regional railroads, and governmental projects in Washington, D.C.

With its location along the Potomac River, the complex was burned by Union soldiers in 1861, but it was rebuilt after the Civil War. In 1889, a flood devastated travel on the C & O Canal for several years, which curtailed production at the Potomac Mills, which closed permanently in 1901.

While most of the Potomac Mills ruins are West Virginia, the archeological information about the hydraulic grain and cement production during the 19th century is also located in Maryland.
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Image description: Black and white photograph of stone ruins.
Image text: Maryland's National Register Properties: Potomac Mills
Image source:: Maryland & West Virginia State Historic Preservation Offices, Potomac Mills & Packhorse Ford by Edie Wallace, 02/2012, -11-1178
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Thomas Stone National Historic Site
• 6655 Rose Hill Road, Port To***co, MD, 20677
• As of Sunday, December 24, 2023, Thomas Stone National Historic Site is closed for the season, and it will tentatively reopen in the spring of 2024.
• 804-227-1732, extension 227
• [email protected]

The struggles of a US Navy surgeon while operating on a sailor at sea.

Acting Assistant Surgeon Ezra Pray aboard the U.S. Bark Fernandina remembered a long and frustrating night at sea, facing the unique challenges of naval surgery:

"We are off Hatteras; and I hoped the wind would continue good so that I could get my patient into the Hospital ship before he dies; but we have the wind dead ahead, and the sea is mountain high. I control the sick man’s pulse with tr. of Veratrum Viride and his pains with morphia, his wounds being kept covered with cold water dressing – often changed. I got no sleep last night and stand no chance to get any to night. But 12 is the clock, and an unhappy day is ended."

Source:
Entry for April 5, 1862, Transcript of Journal of Acting Assistant Surgeon Ezra Pray US Bark Fernandina: September 1861-April 1862.

Image credit:
Detail from sketch by C. Ellery Stedman, "The Surgeon's station in the 'Fornots' is the ward-room," US Army Heritage and Education Center Collection.

This Sutler Has Oysters. | Period Photos & Examinations A real treat for soldiers in the field. No location is given. MOLLUS collection, volume 25 page 1225.

👍🎄🎅🧑‍🎄a very Merry Christmas to you and your loving family brother 🧑‍🎄🎅🎄👍

After the Carnage of Antietam, Man's Best Friend Stood Loyally By The incredible bond between soldiers and their dogs provided a moving addendum to the Civil War battle's bloody fury.

Peaceful night at Gettysburg

Fall Skirmish at the Daniel Lady Farm
Sept 12-13
Interested in joining us for the last event of the year.
Contact us today

Member companies...a reminder to REGISTER EARLY for the Spring Skirmish at the Daniel Lady Farm, April 18-19th. The registration fee is only $15 until March 15th.

You don't want to miss this season opening event!

Also be sure to register for New Market ($15 until April 30th) and get in on the early registration for Cedar Creek at only $20 until March 15th!
REGISTER ASAP!