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Civil War Drawings Collection; see also 1945.580.53. New York State Division of Military and Naval Affairs: Military History 7th Regiment, New York State Militia, New York National Guard "April 19, 1861, the regiment, commanded by Col. Marshall Lefferts, left the State, en route to Washington, D. C., where it was mustered in the service of the United States for thirty days, April 26, 1861; it served at Washington and was mustered out at New York city, June 3, 1861." Taken from Third Annual Report of the Bureau of Military Statistics of the State of New York, Albany: [The Bureau], (C. Wendell), 1866. SEVENTH REGIMENT, N. Y. S. MILITIA. "News of the riot in Baltimore, in which Massachusetts soldiers were killed, was received before the regiment left New York and increased greatly the interest attending its departure. The Seventh went by railroad to Perrysville; thence by steamer to Annapolis, and along or near the railroad track to Annapolis Junction and Washington, where it served for thirty days. Arrived at Annapolis April 22d, and at Washington the 25th, and was mustered into the United States service April 27th. The regiment crossed the Potomac with the first troops that entered Virginia, when Alexandria and Arlington Heights were occupied, and labored with the New Jersey brigade in the construction of "Fort Runyon". The Seventh remained on duty at and in the vicinity of Washington until the 31st of May, when it returned to New York." When Lincoln called for volunteers in the spring of 1861, the 8th Massachusetts Militia (The Minute Men), including the Salem Zouaves, were among the first units to respond. They left for Annapolis, Maryland, on 18 April, to guard the frigate U.S.S. Constitution until it was safely removed to New York Harbor. The 8th Massachusetts infantry reached Annapolis 21 April. Col. Benjamin F. Butler forwarded the 8th Massachusetts and the 7th New York Infantry regiments to Washington. They served a three-months period of enlistment until August 1861. Maryland Civil War Centennial Commission

Civil War Drawings Collection. Drawn by a Special Artist attached to Gen. Banks' Command. Engraved for Frank Leslie's Illustrated Newspaper, 14 September 1861(XII:304):277. Bank's division was at Harper's Ferry in July 1861, an extremely wet summer in the Middle Atlantic States. Heavy rains in early August caused the Potomac and its tributaries to swell; the river was near flood stage along its middle reaches, making a Confederate incursion into Maryland unlikely. General Banks pulled most of his troops out of Harper's Ferry, recrossed the Potomac, and put his division into camp near Hyattstown.

Civil War Drawings Collection. A scene during the first Union advance into Virginia: Adjutant and Inspector General Reports 1864 Report; Appendix F HEADQUARTERS, CAMP ADVANCE, VA September 27, 1861 Col. R. B. Marcy, VA.Chief of Staff. SIR: I have the honor to report to you that at 9 o'clock on Wednesday morning, September 25, I moved towards Lewinsville, the right wing under Col. Taylor, leaving on the hill commanding Langley, on the Leesburg turnpike, one section of Capt. Mott's battery, supported by three companies of the Nineteenth Indiana; advancing on the road to Lewinsville, on a knoll covering the country to the right, the center section of the same battery, with four companies of the 2d Wisconsin; and one mile farther on the remaining section, under the immediate command of Capt. Mott, the Thirty-third New York…" W. F. SMITH. Brig Gen. Commanding at Chain Bridge The Fight at Lewinsville. September 12, 1861, The New York Herald THE REBELLION. WASHINGTON, Sept. 11, 1861. In accordance with orders from Gen. McClellan, this morning, Gen. Smith, commanding the advance brigade on the south side of the Potomac near the Chain Bridge, directed a topographical reconnoissance…to be made in the direction of Lewinsville. The reconnoitering party consisted of the seventy-ninth New York Volunteers.… After the arrival of our troops in Lewinsville, Cavalry and infantry pickets were thrown out on all the diverging roads and prominent places for a distance of half a mile. The enemy's battery, which by this time had attained a position within three-fourths of a mile of our troops, opened a rapid canonade on our forces with shot and shell…Captain Griffin's battery, returning briskly the fire of the enemy. While the canonade was in full progress, Captain Thadeus Mott…arrived on the ground with a section of artillery…opened fire from his howitzers, and fired but three shells each, one striking in the midst of the reels and completely silencing their battery…The rebels, thus seeing themselves overmatched, retreated from the from the field.