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Maryland Made Tips & Tricks Rise of to Improve ‘Maryland’ Your Impression Steuart Maryland Made Tips & Tricks Rise of To Improve ‘Maryland’ Your Impression Steuart The Maryland Line: Tradition Born From Culture New Market 2019: PHOTO BY PAT RICH A Successful Jimmy Farmer, a member of 2nd Mary- Weekend land, ‘Co. D’ In The Valley Summer/Fall 2019 Page 2 True Marylander Summer/Fall 2019 Volume IV Issue II TRUE MARYLANDER Improve Your Impression 5 The CSA’s Other Steuart 6 IMMORTALS: War and the Old Line State 8 NEW MARKET 2019: Lost Boys Are Found Page 7 Page 3 True Marylander Summer/Fall 2019 Page 4 True Marylander Summer/Fall 2019 Happy 5th Birthday! A look back at five years of 2nd Md., Co. D Page 5 True Marylander Summer/Fall 2019 Maryland Made Tips and tricks By IAIN DENSMORE to improve True Marylander your impression 1. Defarbing your rifle One of the most predominant Next, sand the stock down to the This is the quick and dirty process reproduction rifled muskets in the bare wood and refinish with lin- to defarb. The stock still needs to hobby is the Italian Armi-Sport seed oil. Linseed oil is the period be reshaped and there are a few take on the 1853 Enfield. But the correct coating for the wood. minor changes that still need to standard reproduction sticks out be made. I would recommend just like gaiters, gal troops, and Finally, find a lock plate with removing the rear strap swivel red artillery trim. The best fix is to correct markings on the trade on the trigger guard. The stan- defarb. blanket or at a gun shop like Zim- dard armi sport one is not peri- merman Gunsmith or Lodgewood od. Replace it with an original A lot of the Enfield defarb you can MFG. Go with a plate stamped part, found easily in a number of do yourself. Start with a metal file “Tower”, “Potts and Hunt”, “Bar- Gettysburg shops, or just remove and file off the “armi sport made nett London”, or one of the many it altogether. The rifle straps are in Italy” text from the barrel. British arms manufacturers that another item to consider dis- Light file the lettering, taking care supplied weapons to the South. carding. While they are period not to harm the barrel. The standard “Enfield” on the lock correct, they are over-represented pate of the armi sport is wrong. in the hobby. Examine the mid/ Then soak the barrel, lock plate, The font is incorrect for the era. late War photos of Confederate and barrel bands in vinegar to re- The British Government, for po- dead, especially, and you will see move the bluing. The bluing armi litical reasons, forbade the Royal many are without straps on their sport adds is not period correct Armory at Enfield from directly rifles. These are a few of the home to begin with. The manual of day selling weapons to the Confeder- remedies that will improve the states “fine flour of emery cloth is acy, but licensed the design to the look of your reproduction Enfield the best article to clean the exte- independent arms manufacturers and will set it apart from the basic rior of the barrel.” It should also to sell. armi sport models. be noted that soldiers in the field See: Page 14 would utilize crushed brick, as it was readily available, wrapped in cloth to clean the barrel. By using these abrasive cleaning methods, it is understandable the bluing would be stripped away after a short time on campaign. Page 6 True Marylander Summer/Fall 2019 From West Point To Appomattox The Rise of “Maryland” Steuart Forged in the saddle Steuart graduated from West Point Military Acad- emy in 1848 at the age of 19, ranked 37th and sharing a cadet class with future Union general John Buford (of Gettysburg lore). He entered the service in the United States cavalry and cut his teeth as an Indian fighter on the frontier. For the next decade, Steuart grew as a horse sol- dier. He served in Missouri and Kansas, participated on an expedition through the Rocky Mountains and fought the Cheyenee, the Mormans and the fierce Comanche. He shared his namesake with his father, a hero from the War of 1812, his grandfather, a physician in the Revolutionary War, and his great-grandfa- ther, a Scottish immigrant who later served as a lieutenant colonel of the Maryland horse militia BALTIMORE — He did not share the McLean under Governor Horatio Sharpe during the Parlor with General Robert E. Lee on the after- French and Indian War. noon of April 9, 1865 near Appomattox Court House, Va., but Brigadier General George Hume In fact, his great-grandfather bred Dugannon, a Steuart Jr. was present for the surrender of the thoroughbred race horse brought from England Army of Northern Virginia. to compete against the stables owned by fellow Marylander Charles Carroll. The horse went on to He was among the starved and battered South- win the Annapolis Subscription Plate in 1743 — ern troops that laid down their arms following the colony’s first recorded formal horse race and the peace terms agreed upon by Lee and General. currently the oldest surviving piece of silver in the Ulysses Grant. state. Nicknamed “Maryland” to differentiate himself A talent for combat and horse riding flowed from the popular cavalry general with a similar through the veins of “Maryland” Steuart. last name, Steuart, a West Pointer from Baltimore, endured the Civil War from beginning to end. See: Page 10 Page 7 True Marylander Summer/Fall 2019 NEW MARKET, Va. — There “But, only due to the high quality had been little time for the 26th of men in the battalion, within Virginia Battalion, numbering six a few short hours, the Battalion companies and composed of over functioned like we had been to- 100 men from all along the East gether for a decade.” Coast, to properly prepare for the recreation of the Battle of New Indeed, by mid-day the six com- Market. panies were flawlessly maneuver- ing as one .When Sunday after- The battalion operated mostly in noon arrived, the unit drew the the shade along the edge of the attention of both sides — march- battlefield, well beyond the un- Chris Anders, center, leads the ing with all eyes on them, fighting sightly assemblage of A-frame 26th Virginia Battalion over the at the center of the Confederate tents, camp chairs and bright- fence during the recreation of the line and charging across the Field ly-colored coolers that sprawled Battle of New Market in May. of Lost Shoes alongside the VMI across the open fields between the cadets. far-off parking lot and the Virgin- ia Museum of the Civil War. reenactors, could come together “I have never had the honor of fast enough to accurately display commanding such troops before... With a like-minded purpose to ac- a battalion. from such a wide range of back- curately portray the 26th Virginia, grounds,” Anders said. “With 109 the companies joined together “I was a little worried heading to men in the ranks, we stretched in a bond of brotherhood during New Market, being that we had from North Carolina to Canada. the anniversary weekend of May six companies, four or which had All with one goal, one purpose- to 17-19. never worked together and three honor the men of the 26th Virgin- that had never worked with me,” ia Infantry Battalion to the best of When Saturday dawned, the only battalion commander Chris An- our abilities.” question was whether the group, ders admitted. made entirely of authentic See: Page 15 Page 8 True Marylander Summer/Fall 2019 The Maryland Line: —Tradition Born From Culture— By: Colin Zimmerman As morning dawned on July 3, 1863 just southeast of Gettysburg, stiff, battle-weary and sleepless Marylanders of the 1st Maryland Battalion C.S.A. peered out from their foothold on Culp’s Hill. What they saw astonished them. In front and around them were thousands of Federals from the Army of the Potomac’s XII Corps, which had returned in the middle of the night from their foray toward the Federal left flank. The regiment had suffered terribly the night before in the desperate night assault on Culp’s Hill that yielded moderate results. Many now looked around and noticed missing friends, while sergeants and officers took stock of what manpower they had left Don Troiani: Smallwood’s Marylanders at Long Island and re-organized the now reduced of the Confederate service. This At the battle of Long Island in command into an effective fighting lone regiment had an enormous September 1776, Smallwood’s 270 force. During the July 2 attack, the reputation to live up to, which was Marylanders fought a desperate regiment’s leader, Lt. Col. James forged by their grandfathers during rearguard action against four times Herbert fell wounded, placing the Revolution. their numbers, saving the army, Major William Worthington Golds- and sacrificing themselves in the borough in command of the outfit. The Maryland Line or better known process. Washington was said to as the “Old Line,” a name given to have quipped upon watching the The Marylanders were moments them by the nation’s most famous courageous stand of the Maryland away from participating in their American, George Washington, was Regiment: “Good God, what brave single most definable action in the considered the shock troops of the fellows I must this day lose.” most recognizable battle of the Continental Army. Time and time Civil War. While the men rested again the Marylanders were thrown With only a dozen or so returning and waited for the inevitable order into the most difficult situations after the fight, Smallwood’s Mary- to attack, it has to be assumed and played key roles in every major landers would forever be remem- that many minds turned towards battle fought by the Continental bered as the “Immortals,” and thoughts of home, loved ones and Army.
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