Description
Very unique view from this very obscure Maryland unit. Gemtype identified as Sergeant James See of the 1st Maryland Eastern Shore Infantry. Immediately following the regiments organization, they were assigned to special duty along the eastern shore of Maryland resulting in their regimental designation. In November, 1861, it formed a part of General Lockwood’s Brigade in its expedition into the counties of Accomac and Northampton, the eastern shore counties of Virginia. With Lee’s invasion into Pennsylvania 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. Following the battle of Gettysburg the regiment 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. This view bears an old ink inscription reading “Balto, Md. Dec. 1864. Sergt. James See Co. F. 1st Regt. Md. Vols. Infantry. Presented to Sergt. Wm. C. Zahn”. James would muster with Company F as a sergeant in September, 1861, transferring into the 11th Maryland Infantry in February, 1865 when the two regiments were consolidated. William C. Zahn, to whom the image was presented to, would serve in Company F of the 11th Maryland Infantry. where he would serve from September, 1864, until his discharge in June, 1865. Great piece from a seldom seen unit and hard to find state!
