General Notes

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Colonial Families of the United States of America:  Volume 1
MCHENRY HOWARD graduated at Princeton College, 1858; served in the
Confederate States Army, June, 1861-1865, as Sergeant in Murray's Co. H,
1st Md Infantry Regt., and on Staffs of Brigadier Generals Charles S.
Winder (Stonewall Brigate) and Geo. H. Steart, and Major Generals Isaac
R. Trimble and G.W. Custis Lee, and was in the battles of Manassas,
McDowell, Winchester, Cross Keys, Port Republic, Gaines's Mill or Cold
Harbor, Malvern Hill, Cedar Run (Slaughter's Mountain, Payne's Farm and
Mine Run, the Widerness, Spottsylvania Court House, the Retreat from
Richmond and Sailor's Creek, and other engagements; Captain if 5th
Regiment. Md. National Guard, 1867-1872; Captain in 6th Regiment Md.
National Guard in riots of 1877; Member of 2d Branch City Council of
Baltimore, 1883-1885; President of the Society of the Army and Navy of
the Confederate States in the State of Maryland, 1877-1883; Governor of
the Society of Colonial Wars in the State of Maryland, 1895-1904; Vice
President of the Sons of the Revolution in the State of Maryland,
1892-1901; Member of Council of the Maryland Historical Society since
1900.