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Revolutionary War


The majority of Revolutionary War military records burned in the courthouse fire of 1831.

Militia - 1794

  • 1794 List of St. Mary's County Men in the Militia - Names of 1,373 men.  First card titled "An enrollment of the militia in Saint Marys County. Agreeable to an act of assembly! as returned by F. Hamersley to the Commissioners of the Tax 1794"

War of 1812


The majority of the War of 1812 military records burned in the courthouse fire of 1831

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Civil War

  • St. Mary's County in the Civil War
    • Muffled Oars - A Story of St. Mary's County in the Civil War, by Annie Chunn Candee.  Manuscript at SMCHS.  Book available at SMCHS bookstore, Fenwick Books, and Amazon.  Also see The Story Behind Muffled Oars in the Fall 2023 issue of the Chronicles of St. Mary's County
  • Pt. Lookout Hospital and Confederate Prisoner of War Camp
    • Pt Lookout MD and the Northern Neck -  Article published in the December 2019 issue of the Northern Neck of Virginia Historical Magazine.  Article with excellent history of Pt. Lookout as both hospital and POW camp.  Latter part of article focuses on men from the Northern Neck of Virginia who were imprisoned there.
    • Point Lookout, MD - View of Hammond General Hospital & U.S. General Depot For Prisoners  A beautiful colored lithograph from the Library of Congress showing a bird's-eye view of the Point Lookout peninsula as it appeared in 1864.  Dozens of buildings are meticulously shown and annotated.
    • Prisoner lists for Point Lookout Prison Camp for Confederates are available on microfilm.  They are also available online at Family Search.  Images of 429 volumes of Confederate Prisoners of War records, including Point Lookout.  (Free, but account required)
    •  Pt. Lookout Prisoner of War Camp - 1972 book by Edwin W. Beitzell.  Available in the SMCHS bookstore.
  • St. Mary's Men Who Served
    • St. Mary's Men Who Served in the War Between the States Edwin Beitzel's unpublished, handwritten manuscript with the names of St. Mary's County men who served in the civil war.  Lists are divided into six folders (selectable using bookmarks in the document): 1) Unionists, 2) Notes, 3) Confederacy, 4) Federal Draft Enrollment Books, 5) US Service Black, and 6) US Service White.  Every entry is meticulously documented with references.  This is the only known comprehensive list of St. Mary's County Civil War soldiers. The newspaper article below is a summary of his work.
    • In The War Between The States - 4-Part series in the Enterprise published in March and April of 1978.  Presents research done by Edwin Beitzell on the men from St. Mary's County who served during the Civil War.  Lists for both whites and blacks who served in the Union and Confederacy.  Mr. Beitzell had prepared this information as a manuscript for an unpublished book (see above).    
    • Graven in Stone and Buried under the Shield: A Guide to Gravestones of Maryland’s Civil War Veterans
  • Other Related Topics
    • John Wilkes Booth Escape Route - 17-page map and guide detailing the 90-mile driving tour that follows the route taken by John Wilkes Booth as he attempted escape following the assassination of President Abraham Lincoln in April 1865.
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