5th Maryland Regiment

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The 5th Maryland Regiment (The Dandy Fifth) was organized on 27 March 1776 composing of eight companies of volunteer from the counties of Queen Anne's, Kent, Caroline, and Dorchester of the colony of Maryland and was authorized on September 16, 1776 for service with the Continental Army. It was assigned to the main Continental Army on 27 December 1776. On 22 May 1777, it was assigned to the 1st Maryland Brigade and re-organized on 12 May 1779 to nine companies. It was re-assigned to the Southern Department on 5 April 1780. The regiment was re-assigned from the 1st Maryland Brigade to the Maryland Brigade on 1 January 1781. The regiment would see action during the Battle of Long Island (1776), the Battle of Brandywine (1777), the Battle of Germantown (1777), the Battle of Monmouth (1778), the Battle of Camden (1780), and the Battle of Guilford Court House (1781). The regiment was furloughed January 1, 1782, at Round O, South Carolina and disbanded on January 1, 1783.

• Note the 175th Infantry MNG claims descent from the 5th Maryland

References

• Wright, Richard K. The Continental Army. Washington, D.C.: Center of Military Hisory.

Bibliography

• Balch, Thomas Papers Relating Chiefly to the Maryland Line During the Revolution. Philadelphia:
• Brewer, James H. Fitzgerald History of the 175th Infantry (Fifth Maryland). War Records Division: Maryland Historical Society.
• Christian, Bernard (1972). Muster Rolls & other Records of Service of Maryland Troops in the American Revolution 1775-1783. Reprint, Baltimore, Maryland: Lord Baltimore Press, Maryland Historical Society.
• Steuart, Rieman History of the Maryland Line in the Revolutionary War 1775-1783. Towson;Society of the Cincinnati of Maryland.

External links

• The Revolutionary War American Units. Retrieved on May 24., 2006.

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