 Upon completion of that initial training, the full regiment assembled at Kalamazoo in mid-August and was deployed out of state, bound for Baltimore, at the end of the month.Despite pronounced secessionist sentiment in Baltimore, the regiment’s stay there was mostly pleasant and uneventful.Major Bacon led the regiment on a bloodless foray down Virginia’s Eastern Shore in December as part of Brigadier General Henry Hayes Lockwood’s Peninsular Brigade.