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Frederick W. Miles, killed at Resaca, Ga., May 14, 1864.
William P. Martin, died at Nashville April 12. 1864. John Whitford, transferred to Twenty-eighth Infantry.
Charles J. Wynne, transferred to Twenty-eighth Infantry.
TWENTY-FOURTH MICHIGAN INFANTRY.
This command was mustered into service at Detroit August 27, 1862. Among the troops were the following-named soldiers from Macomb: John W. Hodgetts, Reuben W. Page. Silas Aurankerlin, Adolphus Nulett, James A. Armstrong and William Havens, dis- charged June 30, 1865.
TWENTY-FIFTH MICHIGAN INFANTRY.
This command was organized at Kalamazoo, under Commandant H. G. Wells, by Col. Orlando H. Moore, and mustered into service September 22, 1862, with a force of 896 officers and men. Its first battle was at Mumfordsville, Ky., December 27, 1862, and its last at Nashville. Tenn., December 16, 1864. The command was mustered out at Sal- isbury after the surrender of the rebel Gen. Johnson, and, returning to the State, re- ceived its discharge at Jackson, July 2, 1865.
TWENTY-SIXTH MICHIGAN INFANTRY.
This regiment was organized at Jackson and mustered into service December 12, 1862. It left, en route for Washington, under Col. Judson S. Farrar, of Mount Clemens, Decem- ber 13, with a force of 903 officers and enlisted men. The regiment was engaged in doing provost duty at Alexandria, Va., until April 20, 1863. when it entered on regular service, being present at Suffolk, from April 22 to May 14, 1863. The operations of the command were confined to Virginia, in which State it won laurels on no less than twenty-seven fields, concluding a term of brilliant service at Petersburg, April 3, 1865. The regiment was mustered out at Bailey's Cross Roads, June 4, and, returning, was paid off at Jackson June 16, 1865. The command was on service in New York City during the riots of 1863. Under its Colonel, it was subsequently a garrison regiment, at Staten Island, from July, 1863, until October of the same year.
TWENTY-SEVENTH MICHIGAN INFANTRY.
This command was organized at Ypsilanti April 12, 1863. The nucleus of the Twenty-seventh was ordered from Port Huron to the former point, where it was consoli-
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dated with the Twenty-eighth, under the name of the Twenty -seventh Infantry. Eight companies of 108 men each were mustered in April 12, 1863, and ordered to report at Cincinnati, where organization was completed. This command was stationed at various posts in Kentucky, until the advance of the Ninth Corps, to which it was attached. into Mississippi. From the battle of Jamestown, Ky., June 2. 1863, to that near Knoxville. Tenn., January 23, 1864, its service was confined to Tennessee and Kentucky, with the exception of the term passed before Vicksburg, Miss., June 22 to July 4, 1863. It entered the Virginia campaign at the Wilderness, May 5, 1864, and closed its service in that State before Petersburg, April 3. 1865. The regiment received discharge at Detroit. June 30, 1865.
Robert Telfort. transferred to Veteran Reserve Corps May 1, 1864, and Richard Day, discharged July 26, 1865, were the only volunteers from Macomb in the Twenty-seventh.
TWENTY-EIGHTH MICHIGAN INFANTRY.
This regiment resulted from the consolidation of the Twenty eighth rendezvoused at Marshall, under Commandant S. S. Lacey, and the Twenty-ninth, rendezvoused at Kala- mazoo, Commandant W. B. Williams. This organization of ten full companies left Kala mazoo, under Col. Delos Phillips, October 26, 1864, and arrived at Camp Nelson, Ky., November 10. 1864. Its regular service began at Nashville, Tenn .. December 12, 1864. and closed at Wise's Forks, N. C., March 10, 1865. The command was mustered out June 5, 1866, and, returning, received its discharge at Detroit, June S. 1866.
TWENTY- NINTH MICHIGAN INFANTRY.
This command was designated as the Thirty-first Michigan Infantry in the military orders of 1864. The name Twenty-ninth was, however, given to it, and its organization completed under Commandant John F. Driggs, at Saginaw, October 3. 1864, which eity it left October 6. en route to Nashville. Tenn., under Col Thomas Saylor. The command was mustered out at Detroit September 12, 1865.
SOLDIERS' RECORD.
Joshua Conklin, Jesse Grover. Peter Thise, I. C. Stark, W. E. R. Lockwood, James Pincomb, Frank Beetwee, John C. Reenies and Antoine Ducle were discharged Septem- ber 6, 1865, together with the volunteers from Macomb hitherto transferred to this com- mand.
THIRTIETH MICHIGAN INFANTRY.
This regiment was raised under anthority from the War Department, for special service on the Michigan frontier, its term of service being for one year; and by orders from this department, dated November 7, 1864. its recruitment commenced, under Col. G. S. Warner, at Jackson. The organization was completed at Detroit January 9, 1865, and the com- mand entered on service. The headquarters were at Jackson first, then removed to Detroit. and ultimately established at Fort Gratiot, where Companies A and B were stationed;
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Company D was stationed at St. Clair; E. at Wyandotte; K, at Jackson; H, at Fenton: (i, at Detroit, and C. F and I at Detroit Barracks. The regiment performed its duty well and was mustered out of service June 30, 1865. Of the 1,001 officers and private soldiers belonging to the command, eighteen died of disease during the term of service.
SOLDIERS RECORD.
George H. Dickenson, died at Fort Gratiot June 12, 1865.
Discharged -Samnel Barton, Dan Newkesberg, Henry Hagerman, Winfield S. Hath- away, Peter Jackson, Nathaniel Barringer, I. A. Andrews, Nathan Aldrich, Alonzo A. Aldrich, Thomas Baird. Abel Brown, Vorees Bump. Charles O. Burton, Dan H. Curtiss, Amos L. Cole, William L. Cole, James J. Curtiss, William E. Corby. Ed Cutcher, Porter Conyer, Edward Elmer, Miles Flower, Justus O. Grout, Scott Hathaway, Charles Hen- derson, Ira Henderson, Alex Henderson, Josepha Ingraham, Daniel Lewis, Uriah E. Lemon, George Maybee, Joseph Marshall, Martin M. Murray, Albert S. Pierson, New- berry Reynolds, Dan Rexford, William Smith, Sidney H. Sumner, Henry C. Stone, John Van Horn, William H. Welden, Eli Summerfield Henry Stevens, Horace J. Whitney, Frank Allen, Dexter A. Adams, Charles M. Callow, William H. Croker, John J. Clure, Charles Disbrow, Joseph Furton, Ezra Gardner, Edwin Gillespie, William H. Landin, Sam L. Miller, William A. Miller, John Milliard, Daniel McQuillan, Eugene O'Neil. Chauncey J. Payne, James White, William Yax.
FIRST MICHIGAN COLORED INFANTRY.
This regiment was organized in the fall and winter of 1863. under Col. Henry Barns, and mustered into service February 17, 1864. The command left Detroit March 28, 1864, under Lient. Col. Bennett, and reported at Annapolis early in April. where it re- mained until ordered to Hilton Head, S. C., April 19, 1564. Its first engagement was at Baldwin, Fla .. August 8, 1864, and its last field day at Singleton's Plantation, S. C., April 19, 1865. The command was discharged at Detroit October 17, 1865.
SOLDIERS' RECORD.
Discharged, September 30, 1865: Edwin Lawson, John E. Taylor, Andrew J. Rawles, Eli Crockett, Henry Banks, Jerry Phoenix, William Pines, Henry Crump, William Mann, Henry Daily. Peter H. Ebo, Daniel Egbert, King Grampione, George Hall, Lewis Fish- er. Robert Valentine, Crawford Byrd, Richard Walker, W. H. Ferguson.
FIRST MICHIGAN ENGINEERS AND MECHANICS.
This command was organized at Marshall, under Col. W. P. Innes, and left for the front December 17, 1861. A detachment of this regiment was the first to enter Bowling Green. October 31, 1864, its term of service expired, but the re-enlisted veterans, re- cruits and officers enabled it to continue in the service. The record of the military affairs in which it was engaged begins with Mill Springs, Ky., Jannary 19, 1862, and concludes
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with Bentonville, N. C., March 19, 1865. The command was mustered out at Nashville, Tenn., September 22, and disbanded at Jackson October 1, 1865.
SOLDIERS' RECORD.
Discharged-Hiram M. Rhodes, Oscar C. Rhodes, William H. Fullerton, Orson Slo cumb, Alfred D. Rice, John Dulack, Miles W. Davis, Augustus R. Rowe, Cornelius Spain.
FIRST MICHIGAN CAVALRY.
The First Michigan Cavalry was organized in August, 1861, under Col. T. F. Broad- head, and left Detroit for Washington with a force of 1,144 officers and private troops, September 29. It participated in all the actions along the Upper Potomac, Shenandoah and east of the Blue Ridge Mountains before the close of the year, with the result of losing thirty men killed, fifty-eight wounded, sixty who died of discase and 170 who were made prisoners. During the early part of the year 1863, the regiment was engaged on guard duty in front of Washington on a line extending from Edward's Ferry to the mouthi of the Opequon River. The duty was the most arduous and difficult the regiment had to perform, requiring incessant watchfulness and vigilance; but while two cavalry regiments from other States, who were sharing in the service, lost each about 200 men, the loss of the First was only thirty. During the rebel Gen. Stuart's raid in February, a detachment of fifty-six men of this command was sent forth to watch his movements; near Opegonn. the enemy came within range of this detachment and was driven back in confusion. On June 27, the regiment took up its line of march northward in the Gettysburg campaign. and engaged in fifteen battles and skirmishes in as many days. It met Hampton's Legion, July 3, and defeated it in six minutes, losing eighty men and eleven officers of the 300 who went into the fight. The succeeding day, it defeated two regiments of rebel cavalry at Fairfield Gap; at Falling Waters, it captured 500 rebels and two stands of colors be- longing to the Fortieth and Forty-seventh Virginia Infantry. The munber of men car- ried away by disease during the year was twenty-nine.
The operations of the command during 1864, from the expiration of its furlough at Detroit, February 7, was of varied brilliancy. It made the crossing of the Rapidan May 4, 1864. and served in all the battles of the Army of the Potomac during the summer of that year. In August, it moved into Virginia, and was attached to the Army of the Mid dle Division, under Gen. Philip H. Sheridan. The command marched 1,645 miles during the year; lost eighty-two men in battle, had 102 wounded and thirty three who died of disease. During the winter of 1864-65, the regiment participated in the following en- gagements: Mount Crawford, Va .. October 2, 1864: Woodstock, October 9; Cedar Creek, October 19; Madison Court House, December 24, 1864; Lonisa Court House, March S. 1865: Five Forks, March 30 to April 1; South Side Railroad, April 2; Duck Pond Mills, April 4; Ridge's'or Sailor's Creek, April 6; Appomattox Court House, April S and 9, and Willow Springs, D. T., August 12, 1865.
The command re-enlisted at Fort Bridger, November, 1865, and consolidated with
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the Sixth and Seventh Cavalry Regiments, forming the First Veteran Cavalry. There, also, it was mustered out March 10, 1866.
SOLDIERS' RECORD.
Darius Dibble, killed at Cedar Mountain August 9, 1862.
Joel Frost, killed at Cedar Mountain August 9, 1562.
Otis J. Ackerman, died in Woodstock, 1862.
Jeremiah S. Abbott, died October 7, 1861.
Elisha P. Butterfield, died November 21, 1861.
Daniel Young, died May. 1862.
Alexander Butterfield, transferred to Veteran Reserve Corps November 12. 1862.
-. Henry L. Young, transferred to Veteran Reserve Corps October 28, 1862.
Elijah L. Bates, discharged January, 1862.
William B. Sweet, discharged July, 1862.
Erin Cleveland. discharged December, 1862.
Benjamin Butterfield, missing at Gettysburg July 4, 1863.
Alonzo Smith, missing at Rob River September 23. 1863.
Benjamin Butterfield, regained, and discharged July 5, 1563.
John Chapaton, discharged: no date.
Francis Bush, discharged January 3.
David L. Curtiss, discharged January 7, 1863.
Thomas Weightman. James B. Lyon, Edward E. Clark, Jacob H. Hosmer, Jesse G. Hosmer. William H. Phelps. Alphonso Chilson, George Hopkins, were transferred to Veteran Reserve Corps December 21, 1863.
Charles Robbins, fell at Todd's Corners May 6, 1864.
Alphonso L. Chilson, feil at Yellow Tavern May 11, 1864.
James B. Lyon, fell at Washington June 4, 1864.
W. H. Price, fell at Trevillian Station June 11, 1864. James Nesbitt, fell at Trevillian Station June 12, 1864.
Charles Robinson. died at Washington March 23, 1864.
N. H. Barnes, died in Florence Prison, S. C., 186 1.
J. O. Hicks, died March 22. 1861.
Lyman F. Washer, died at Frederick, Md., August 26, 1864.
Dwight Coykendall, missing at Trevillian June 12, 1864.
William H. Linton, missing at Trevillian June 12, 1864. Lemmel Skellinger, transferred to Veteran Reserve Corps February 15, 1864.
Charles Mandell, discharged July 14, 1864.
John M. Doubay, discharged October 8, 1864.
Jed Predmore, James McFall, George E. Burke. Hubbard Smith, David C. Smith, James Alger, Reuben Burgess, discharged Angust 22, 1864.
Daniel B. Moses, killed at Dinwiddie March 13, 1865.
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Oliver H. Palmer, died at Camp Butler December 2, 1863. John J. Bittman, died at Andersonville October 24, 1864. Peter Furton, died at Fort Halleck September 13, 1865. Jay Garvin, missing at Trevillian June 11, 1864. Richard Solan, missing at Trevillian June 11, 1864. A. Thomas, missing at Trevillian June 11, 1864. August H. Miller, missing at Gettysburg July 3, 1863. George M. Clark, missing at Trevillian June 11, 1864. Lawrence Doan, missing at Trevillian June 11, 1864. Fred Schramm, transferred to Illinois Cavalry, 1865.
Discharged-Richard Cramer, Nathan B. Clemmer, Erastus E. Barrett, Feb Lapparl. Volney Peters, Calvin Sylvester, David Tucker, John Bobzine, Nathan Gilbert, Wilbert Brown, William A. Barrett, James Curl, Edward E. Clark, Elon C. Coles, John De Witt. Elijah Farrar, Isaac Labanty, James Lynch, John McCafferty, Thomas Wartman, Jacob H. Hosmer, Lemuel L. Harner, William R. Spencer, Theo S. Burke, Fred Beemer, Henry J. Clark, William Robinson, Edward Odione, Edwin D. Traver, George Woolven, Edward Hasen, John M. Doubay, James Brown. Edward Harris, James Noonan, Ernest Stein, John H. Wilkinson, Augustus Fennell, Michael Halman, Charles Hustgam, Ignatius Lu- tenbacker, Robert Robinson, Isaac Williams, John O'Neil, John F. Seelys, George Burke, Burton H. Chapman, David W. Collis, Benjamin Ayer, Henry Bolensen, Latham Beach, Lyman C. Jalpin, Joseph Hartle, Robert Lee, Elias Robertson, Alonzo C. Wait, Alex Bevins. David Grant, Gelbert Preston, George B. Sanford.
SECOND MICHIGAN CAVALRY.
The Second Michigan Cavalry was organized under Col. F. W. Kellogg, at Grand Rapids, and left for St. Louis November 14, 1861, with a force of 1, 163 officers and men. In December and January, it participated in the raid, under Gen. Carter, into East Ten- nessee, severing the rebel communications and destroying his stores. During this duty, which occupied twenty-two days, the command was engaged in several severe skirmishes. During February and March, 1862, it was stationed at Murfreesboro and Franklin. On February, it was engaged on the 18th, near Milton; on the 19th, at Cainsville, and, on the 27th, near Spring Hill. On the 4th and 5th of March, it engaged the rebels on the Columbia pike road, in which affair it lost one killed, four wounded and one prisoner. From the 8th to the 12th, it participated in movements which resulted in driving the rebel force across the Duck River. It encountered the rebels, under Stearns and Forrest, March 25, inflicting on them severe losses, and taking fifty-two prisoners, with commissary wagons, etc., etc. Again, between Franklin and Triune, June 4, it lost two killed and three wounded. On the 23d, it was engaged at Rover; the succeeding day, pursued the enemy through Middletown, and, on the 27th, charged the rebels into Shelbyville; July 2 and 3, it assisted in driving the rebels out of the Elk River position and through Cowan. During the fall, it participated in the Georgia military enterprises.
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From Danbridge, December 24, 1863, to the Alabama battles, in October, 1865, it won many honors. During December. 1864, this regiment participated in the battles round Nashville. Pulaski, Richland Creek and Sugar Creek. In 1865. it was engaged at Price- ton Yard, Corinth, Tuscaloosa, Triune. Bridgeville and Talladega. After a magnificent service, the command reported at Jackson, and was discharged August 26, 1865.
SOLDIERS' RECORD. John Clark, died at Farmington February 26, 1862. Oscar Smith, died at Rienzi August 4. 1862. Henry C. Rice, discharged March 10, 1862. Jacob Hieppell. discharged October 1, 1862. Charles Bittner, discharged October 31, 1862. John Johnson, killed on Sultana April 27. 1865.
Robert Johnson. died at St. Louis in December.
George Bentley, drowned in West Harpeth River May 15, 1863.
A. Lewis. died at Livingston. Mich .. 1863.
Discharged -- William Thomas. Henry Howard. Reuben Page, James Mason, Fred Hartmann, Benjamin C. Gamble, George St. Johns, Joshua Ferry. Henry Koth, Charles J. Stephens, William H. Scott. Irwin W. Benson, Charles Clark, Henry A. Clark, Jerome B. Harvey, Henry J. Holstein. Edgar Johnson. William G. Kingscott, James McCaffery, F. C. McCoy, Henry S. Schuster. George W. Tripp. George Wentworth, Washington Ames. J. M. H. Finch, Jerome Me Withey. James McCaffery. Charles Clark, Benjamin C. Gamble, Jerome B. Harvey, Henry I. Holstein, Edgar Johnson. F. C. McCoy, Alvis Rasch, Charles Burns, Henry Shuster. William Thomas, Stephen Curran. Edward Wilkins.
THIRD MICHIGAN CAVALRY.
This regiment was organized at Grand Rapids, and left for the front, under Col. J. K. Mizner, November 28, 1861, with 1,163 rank and file. It entered upon full service at New Madrid, March 13, 1862, and concluded its first and brilliant series of work at Coffee- ville December 5, 1862. During the first twelve months its losses were seven killed, forty- five wounded, 104 died of disease and fifty-nine were made prisoners. In 1863, the com- mand was prominent in almost every well-fought field in Northern Mississippi and Western Tennessee. In the affair at Grenada. the Third Cavalry was in the advance, and gained possession of the town after a sharp engagement. It destroyed at that point over sixty locomotives and 400 freight and passenger cars. The command aided largely in driving the noted rebels Dawson, Richardson and Cushman from Western Tennessee, together with the numerous bands of guerrillas infesting that district. From November 1, 1862, to the close of the war, the Third Regiment captured 1. 100 privates and fifty officers and marched 10,800 miles. Angust 1, 1864. it was organized as a veteran regiment, and. during the succeeding twelve months, lost eleven men killed and 115 who died of disease. It formed Maj. Gen. Canby's escort at the surrender of Gen. Taylor, and was subsequently attached to Sheridan's army until mastered out, February 16, 1866.
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SOLDIERS RECORD.
Aaron G. Park. died at Corinth June 4, 1862.
Philip E. Kelly, died at Corinth January 28, 1862.
Discharged-William A. Sheldon, William H. Ormsbee, James H. Hoffman, Fred La Force, Paul Beach. Philip Onillett. D. R. Orteal, Ormall Brown, Virgil Champagne, Wel- lington Postal. Ben Van Dam.
FOURTH MICHIGAN CAVALRY.
This regiment was organized at Detroit July 21. 1862. under Col. R. H. G. Minty, with 1,233 men and officers fully equipped. The command left for Louisville September 26, 1862, and entered at once upon that brilliant service which may be said to end with its capture of Jeff Davis. It participated in eight general engagements and over a hun- dred skirmishes during the war. The command was mustered out at Nashville July 1. and discharged at Detroit July 10, 1865.
SOLDIERS RECORD.
Discharged-Angus McDonald, William Hamilton. John Reynolds, George Med- daugh, Sam St. John, Joseph Stead. Wakeman L. Grant. Leslie M. Miller, George Spen- cer, Albert Raymond, Denis Twohey, Fred Devenstien, Francis Elliott, Henry C. Ken yon, Edward Lowman, Joseph Lee, John Nelson, Manuel Brazen.
FIFTH MICHIGAN CAVALRY.
This command was organized under Col. J. T. Copeland, in August, 1862, and left for Washington December 4. A battery of light artillery was raised in connection with this command. During the first months of its service. it was attached to the Army of the Potomac. Toward the close of 1864, it belonged to the Michigan Cavalry Brigade, then operating against Gen. Early, under Gen. Philip H. Sheridan. On November 12. 1864, it advanced to Newtown and engaged a brigade of rebel cavalry, which it drove through that town, when the enemy being re-enforced, the regiment was forced back, losing one killed and three wounded; advancing again in the evening, it charged the enemy's breast- works, and, after a sharp fight, the regiment was repulsed, with a loss of two killed and four wounded. when it returned to camp, where it was employed on the usnal camp and picket duties. until February 27, 1865, when it broke camp and moved with the cavalry corps, toward Stanton, Va., being the commencement of Gen. Sheridan's celebrated raid to the James River. On the Sth of March, the regiment became engaged with a portion of Rosser's Cavalry, near Louisa Court House, assisted in routing the rebel force, and capt- uring the town. in which was destroyed a large amount of property; the railroad depot. with rolling stock and telegraph office, were also destroyed. The regiment also participated in tearing up the track and burning the railroad property along the line of the Lynchburg & Gordonsville Railroad. and in destroying and rendering useless the locks, aqueducts and mills on the line of the James River Canal The command reached White House Landing on the 19th of March, and soon after, with the cavalry corps, joined the Army of the l'o- tomac and proceeded to the left of the line. On the 30th of March, the regiment became
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engaged with the rebel cavalry, and assisted in driving them within their works at Five Forks. The 31st of March and Ist of April, it was engaged with the enemy at Five Forks, and. on the 2d, at the South Side Railroad; on the 4th, at Duck Pond Mills; on the 6th, at the battle of the Ridges, or Sailor's Creek, and on the Sth and 9th, at Appo- mattox Court House. After the surrender of Lee, the regiment moved with the cavalry corps, to Petersburg. Va., where it remained for a short time and then went with the army into North Carolina; thence, it marched to Washington, D. C., and participated in the review of the Army of the Potomac, on the 23d of May, and immediately thereafter, with the Michigan Cavalry Brigade, was ordered West, and proceeded by the Balti- more & Ohio Railroad, and the Ohio and Mississippi Rivers, by steamer to St. Louis, and thence by steamer by the Missouri River, to Fort Leavenworth, where the men of the regiment, having two years or more to serve, were transferred to the First and Seventh Michigan Cavalry, and, on the 22d of June, the organization was mustered out of service, and immediately thereafter proceeded to Michigan. Arriving at Detroit July 1, it was paid off and disbanded. Its record of battles and skirmishes is as follows:
1863-Hanover, Va., June 30; Hunterstown, Penn., July 2; Gettysburg, Penn., July 3; Monterey, Md,, July 4; Cavetown, Ma., July 5; Smithtown, Md., July 6; Boons- boro, MId., July 6; Hagerstown, Md., July 6; Williamsport, Md., July 6; Boonsboro. Ma., July 8; Hagerstown, Ma., July 10; Williamsport, Md., July 10; Falling Waters, Md., July 14: Snicker's Gap, Va., July 19; Kelly's Ford, Va., September 13; Culpep er Court House, Va., September 14; Raccoon Ford, Va., September 16; White's Ford, Va., September 21; Jack's Shop, Va., September 26; James City, Va., October 12; Brandy Station, Va .. October 13; Buckland's Mills, Va., October 19; Stevensburg. Va., Novem- ber 19: Morton's Ford, Va., November 26.
1864-Richmond, Va., March 1: Wilderness, Va., May 6 and 7; Beaver Dam Station, Va., May 9: Yellow Tavern, Va., May 10 and 11; Meadow Bridge, Va., May 12: Milford, Va., May 27; Hawes' Shop. Va., May 28; Baltimore Cross Roads. Va .. May 29; Cold Harbor, Va., May 30. June 1: Trevillian Station, Va., June 11 and 12; Cold Harbor, Va .. July 21; Winchester, Va., August 11; Front Royal, Va .. August 16; Leetown, Va., Au- gust 25: Shepherdstown, Va .. August 25; Smithfield, Va .. August 29; Berryville, Va., September 3; Summit, Va .. September 4, Opequon, Va., September 19; Winchester, Va., September 19: Luray, Va., September 24: Port Republic, Va., July 26, 27 and 28; Mount Crawford, Va., October 2; Woodstock, Va., October 9; Cedar Creek, Va., October 19; Newton, Va., November 12: Madison Court House, Va., December 24.
1865-Louisa Court House, Va., March 18; Five Forks, Va., March 30, 31 and April 1; South Side Railroad, Va., April 2; Duck Pond Mills, Va., April 4; Ridges, or Sailor's Creek. Va., April 6; Appomattox Court House, Va., April 8 and 9.
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