1st Maryland Cavalry
Posted to the Project on 30 Sep 08
The 1st Maryland Cavalry was represented by 11 companies at Gettysburg. (Company M was added after the Gettysburg Campaign.) Raised from Baltimore, the counties of Allegany and Washington (Maryland), Allegheny County (Pennsylvania), and Washington, the regiment mustered in at Baltimore on November 1, 1861.
The 1st’s monument is located along Gregg Avenue on the East Cavalry field. At Gettysburg, their were 335 men under the command of Lt. Col. James M. Deems (1818-1901), a music composer and instructor in Baltimore and at the University of Virginia. The regiment suffered 3 casualties at Gettysburg.
1st Maryland Cavalry
Cavalry Corps, 2nd Division, 1st Brigade
Engaged: 335; 2 wounded, 1 missing
Monument: Gregg Avenue