The January meeting of the Charles County MD Genealogical Society (CCMDGS)
will be held on Tuesday January 17, 2006 at 7:00 pm. The meeting will be
held at the Church of Latter Day Saints located at 4560 Padgett Rd. White
Plains, Md. 20695
Directions can be found at
http://www.rootsweb.com/~mdccmgs/
Our guest speaker will be Linda Reno who will be showing us a film about the
Maryland 400. Please find below a small narrative:
The 115th Infantry dates its lineage back to the earliest militia units
formed to protect the frontier of western Maryland. The birthdate of the
unit, June 14, 1775, is also the birthdate of the United States Army. The
first two companies to leave Maryland were assembled in Frederick in the
summer of 1775 under the command of Captains Cresap and Price; they were
organized in response to the Continental Congress' call to active duty. They
left Frederick in August and marched 551 miles in 21 days to report to
General Washington in September for the defense of Boston. These personnel
later became part of the famous "Maryland 400" or "Maryland Line,"
who
repeatedly charged a numerically superior British force during the Battle of
Long Island, sustaining heavy casualties, but allowing General Washington to
successfully evacuate the bulk of his troops to Manhattan.