Captain Henry Thompson’s First Baltimore Horse Artillery

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Location: [unknown]
Surnames/tags: War of 1812 Maryland Militia Battle of Baltimore

• Compiled from rosters for 1814 found under the name Capt. H. Thompson’s Company of Cavalry, Maryland Militia, RG 94, National Archives.

† Sometime in spring, 2nd Lt. John Diffenderffer resigned and became a private in Capt. Joseph H. Nicholson’s volunteer artillery company, the Baltimore Fencibles, at Fort McHenry; in September, Pvt. Robert Patterson left to become assistant inspector in the Third Division of Maryland Militia and Pvt. Jeremiah Sullivan left to become division quartermaster.‡ Physician. § Future governor of Maryland

The unit included a number of notable Baltimore names: three sons of Revolutionary War hero and former governor of Maryland, Colonel John Eager Howard: John Eager Howard Jr., William Howard, and George Howard, who himself became the governor of Maryland in 1831; two sons of powerful city merchant William Patterson and his wife Dorcas (Spear) Patterson—Robert Patterson and Joseph Wilson Patterson, the latter a founding board member of the Baltimore & Ohio Railroad and interim president in 1836; three Hoffman brothers (George, Peter Jr., and Samuel), prominent wholesale merchants; George Brown, son of banker Alexander Brown (1764–1834), who ultimately became financier for the firm and would succeed his father as head of Alexander Brown & Sons; Jacob Hollingsworth—son of Col. Samuel Hollingsworth; John Kennedy—father of John Pendleton Kennedy; Edward Gray, owner of a cotton mill operated by the Gray Manufacturing Company in Ellicott City; William Jenkins, often called the father of the leather industry in Baltimore; Jesse Slingluff, prominent wholesale merchant; six early graduates of the University of Maryland School of Medicine—Drs. George W. Dashiell, Elisha DeButts, William Gibson Jr., of Rose Hill, William Howard, Thomas Johnson Jr., of Rockland, and Maxwell McDowell; and finally two other representatives of local landed families— George Carr Grundy of Bolton and Lloyd Nicholas Rogers of Druid Hill. ^[1]

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Name	Remarks
Capt. Henry Thompson
1st Lt. Jacob Hollingsworth
2nd Lt.John Diffenderffer†
2nd Lt. John Eager Howard Jr.	Brother of George and William.
3rd Lt.Joseph Wilson Patterson
Quarter Master Sgt. Lionel Lyde Goodwin
1st Sgt. George Hoffman
2nd Sgt. William Jenkins
3rd Sgt. Peter Hoffman Jr.
4th Sgt. John Henderson
1st Cpl. John Kennedy
2nd Cpl. Jesse Slingluff
3rd Cpl. George Carr Grundy
4th Cpl. Joseph Worley
Pvt. Robert Cocks Armstrong
Pvt. William Ballard
Pvt. William Bosley
Pvt. Theodore S. Boyce
Pvt. George Brown
Pvt. John Reynolds Campbell
Pvt. George Washington Dashiell‡
Pvt. Elisha DeButts‡
Pvt. Joseph Donaldson Jr.
Pvt. Nicholas Dorsey
Pvt. Peregrine Falconer
Pvt. Joseph P. Floyd
Pvt. William Gibson Jr.
Pvt. Edward Gray
Pvt. Benjamin H. Gwinn
Pvt. Andrew Hall
Pvt. Benedict William Hall	https://herringrunarchaeology.org/benedict-william-hall-1812-1843/
Pvt. Runyon Harris
Pvt. Govert Haskins
Pvt. Jonas Hastings Jr.
Pvt. Samuel Hoffman
Pvt. George Howard§	Governor of Maryland.
Pvt. William Howard‡
Pvt. May Humphreys
Pvt. Caecilius Coudon Jamison
Pvt. Thomas Johnson Jr.‡
Pvt. Middleton B. Magruder
Pvt. Maxwell McDowell‡
Pvt. Francis Ignatius Mitchell
Pvt. Richard Bennett Mitchell
Pvt. Benjamin Hall Mullikin
Pvt. Charles Nichols
Pvt.Benjamin Bradford Norris Jr.
Pvt. Richard Norris
Pvt. William Norris Jr.
Pvt. Robert Patterson†
Pvt. John Mellon Prentiss
Pvt. Lloyd Nicholas Rogers
Pvt. Richard Cumming Stockton
Pvt. Jacob Stouffer
Pvt. Jeremiah Sullivan†
Pvt. Michael Tiernan
Pvt. Charles Torrance Jr.
Pvt. Hieronymus Daniel Wichelhausen
Pvt. John Wilson
Pvt. Robert Wilson
Pvt. John Yeiser Jr.
Lewis, Servant to Capt. Thompson
Hamlet, Servant to Subaltern

Sources

1. ↑ Bolton, Nelson Mott & George, Christopher T. "Captain Henry Thompson’s First Baltimore Horse Artillery in the Defense of Baltimore in the War of 1812", Maryland Historical Magazine, Vol. 108, No 4.(Winter 2013)