Baltimore Independent Company). • Absorbed into 1st or Smallwood's Battalion (or Regiment), organized 2 Jan. 1776, with eight battalion companies and attached independent companies. • Smallwood's Maryland Regiment reorganized and expanded into the Maryland Brigade, Continental Line (comprising the 1st, 2d, 3d, 4th, 5th, 6th, and 7th Maryland Battalions), 10 Dec. 1776-27 Mar. 1777. • Reorganized into the 1st and 2d Maryland Brigades, 1780. • Reorganized into a single regiment of two battalions designated 1st Maryland Regiment, 13 Sept. 1780. • Reorganized as the Maryland Battalion, 12 Apr. 1783. • Mustered out 15 Nov. 1783, at Baltimore, Maryland. • First Baltimore Light Infantry Company of Volunteers organized in Dec. 1787. • Volunteer militia companies of Baltimore organized into the 5th Regiment of Militia, June 1794, to include nine companies, divided into two battalions. • Mustered into Federal Service, 19 Aug. 1814. • Mustered out of Federal Service, 18 Nov. 1814. • 53d Regiment of Volunteer Infantry constituted in Baltimore, Maryland, of Volunteer Militia companies, Dec. 1835 (The 53d Regiment formed, with the now-designated 5th Regiment of Volunteer Infantry and other elements. The First Light Division of Maryland Volunteers. Exchange of companies between the 53d and 5th Regiments was not uncommon). • Elements of the 5th and 53d Regiments reorganized at Harpers Ferry during May and June 1861 as the Maryland Battalion C.S.A. (Company A mustered into Confederate service 21 May 1861). • Redesignated 1st Regiment Maryland Infantry, C.S.A., 16 June 1861. • 1st Regiment Maryland Infantry, C.S.A., mustered out Aug.17, 1862 at Gordonsville, Virginia. • Reorganized as the 1st Battalion Maryland Infantry at Winchester, Virginia, 2 Oct. 1862. • Redesignated 2d Battalion Maryland Infantry, 19 Jan. 1864. • Parolled at Appomattox, Virginia, 10 Apr. 1865. • 5th Regiment of Volunteer Infantry reorganized 10 May 1867, at Baltimore, Maryland, about a nucleus of former members of the Maryland Guard (1859–61) and the 1st and 2d Maryland Infantry, C.S.A. • Mustered into Federal service 14 May 1898, at Pimlico, Maryland. • Mustered out of Federal service 22 Oct 1898, at Baltimore, Maryland. • Called into Federal service 18 June 1916. • Mustered out of Federal service, 24 Feb. 1917. • Mustered into Federal service 20 Apr. 1917 (Hq. Company and Supply Company, 5th Infantry Regiment, MDNG, redesignated Hq. Company and Supply Company, 112th Field Artillery Regiment, later 110th Field Artillery Regiment, on 1 Oct. 1917; Machine Gun company reassigned to 110th MG