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SOLDIERS' RE ORD.
Andrew T. Jackson, fell at Brandy Station October 12, 1863. George Hitchiler, fell at Gettysburg July 6, 1863.
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Philip H. Hill, fell at Gettysburg July 3, 1563. Dwight Smith, died at Fairfax Court House February 27, 1863. Robert F. Sackett, died at Washington February 17, 1563. Henry Bisbee, died at Marton's Ford November 27, 1863. John North, died at Marton's Ford March 28, 1863. Garrison North, died at Marton's Ford April 9, 1863. Dudley Whitlock, died at Marton's Ford April 15, 1863. Eben K. Wells, died at Marton's Ford May 4, 1863. Stephen North, died at Fairfax Court House May 23, 1563. Leonard Defenbeck, died at Fairfax Court House May 28, 1863. Ezra A. Wood, missing at Gettysburg July 3. 1863. Patrick Weldon, missing at Emmettsburg July 4, 1863. John Fulton, missing at Robinson's River September 17. 1863. Abel Haines, missing at Warrenton Junction August 8, 1863.
Tompkins Abbey, discharged January 23, 1863. William Rogers, discharged November 14, 1863. Andrew Abbey, discharged December 3. 1862. Ephraim Roberts, fell at Middletown October 19, 1864. Ezra A. Wood, died at Washington February 7, 1864.
E. Van Berger, missing at Trevillian June 11, 1864. O. C. Wood, missing at Trevillian June 11. 1864. John Dixon, missing at Trevillian June 11. 1864. L. Spencer. died in Libby Prison. 1864. B. F. Giles, died in Libby Prison, 1864. Roswell Burbee, missing at Falmouth Angust 29. 1564. Newton Wymon, missing May 1, 1864.
Ezekiel Morris, missing May 1, 1864.
Hiram Winas. missing May 1, 1864. William O. Martin, missing at Middletown Angust 15, 1864.
John R. Butterfield, transferred to Veteran Reserve Corps January 15, 1864. Judson A. Barber, transferred to Veteran Reserve Corps March 15. 1864. William Femer, discharged July 6, 1864. Fred Eryell, discharged December 4. 1862 Charles A. Gilbert, discharged February 13. 1863. Charles A. Ballard. August 25, 1864. Amos Finch, July 25, 1865. John A. Huff, died of wounds Jannary 23, 1865. William Blodgett, died at Baltimore December 3, 1865. William V. Stewart, died at Andersonville September 21. 1865. Rosswell Bugbee, died at Andersonville December 12, 1863. Elijah Bates, died at Andersonville July 10, 1864.
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Horaee Chapman, died at Andersonville May 24, 1864.
William A. Denton, died at Andersonville May 23, 1864. Ira A Parks, died at Andersonville April 27, 1864.
William O. Martin, died at Washington April 27, 1865.
Discharged and transferred-James H. Sands, Austin Mattingly, Robert A. Hamilton, Frederick Beemer, Reuben W. Page, Theodore E. Burke, Henry J. Clarke, John D. Fralegh. Milton Landgridge, Walter L. Cullen, John Gager. William L. Guiles, Nathan Gilbert, John A. Bedell, Dighton Voorhies, Ephraim Vanburger, Isaac Crawford, James J. Boyd. Ashley A. Brown, George H. Buzzell, John Dixon, Isaac W. Jones, Walter Jones. Joseph Kimball, John Laughlin, William McCauley, John M. Overton, John F. Reid. Isaac Robinson, Theophilus Syan. [Osear; C. Wood, Collotion Watkins, Orrin Guiles, G. W. Chapman, Oscar Cook, William O'Connor, John L. Dillon, John Simpkins, Charles Dowman, Hiram Winas, Abel Haines, George H. Wilson, Ezekiel Morse. Elias North, Norman Smith, Heze- kiah Smith, Sylvester A. Stone, Jeremiah Weatherwax, Lyman Williams, Leonard Woods.
SIXTH MICHIGAN CAVALRY.
The Sixth Michigan Cavalry was organized at Grand Rapids by F. W. Kellogg, under Col. George Gray, and proceeded to Washington December 10, 1862. During the year 1863, this command gained distinction with the Army of the Potomac, losing thirty. six killed, seventy-five prisoners, sixty-five missing and forty-five who died of disease. In February, 1864, it advanced against the rebel Kilpatrick, and served as Gen. Sheridan's escort in the ride after Mosby's Gurrillas. The Sixth served in the same actions as the Fifth, beginning at Hanover, Va., June 30, 1863, and closing at Appomattox Court House April 9, 1865. It was mustered out at Leavenworth, Kan., November 24, 1865, and dis- charged at Jackson. November 30, 1865.
John Lemon, discharged July 7. 1865. is the only soldier from Macomb reported in the ranks of the command.
SEVENTH MICHIGAN CAVALRY.
This regiment entered the field during the year 1863, two battalions leaving Grand Rapids for Washington February 20 and other companies joining in May. This regiment was in the field before either the Fifth or Sixth Cavalry, and remained in service for some time after the discharge of the latter regiments. The command was mustered out at Fort Leav- enworth, Kan., and arrived at Jackson December 20, 1865, receiving its discharge Deeem- ber 25. 1865. The soldiers were compelled to pay $25 railroad fare home, but this money was allowed them subsequently. Of the Macomb sol fiers serving with the Seventh, the names of William Moore, discharged August 29, 1863, and William L. Guiles, discharged August 11. 1865, are the only ones appearing in the reports.
EIGHTH MICHIGAN CAVALRY.
This regiment was organized at Mount Clemens, under Col. John Stockton. in 1862 and 1863, and mustered into the service of the Union May 2, 1863, forming a command
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of 1, 117 men and officers. The command left for the front in detachments, eight squad- rons being sent forward to Kentucky May 12. 1863. under Lient. Col. Warner.
The officers furnished by Macomb County to this regimeut were: Col. John Stockton, Lieut. Col Henry C. Edgerly: Surgeon, John B. K. Mignanlt; Charles G. Robertson, Hiram M. Snell, Edward Fishpool, John S. Smith, Benjamin Treat, Adolphus C. Stock- ton, Arthur Eastman, John W. Bennett. Andrew J. Abbey. John M. Crawford, Ahniron P. Armstrong, William C. Stoekton, Charles C. Lamb, Aaron L. Abbey. all noticed in the section of this chapter devoted to officers commissioned from Macomb County.
To do justice to this command would require a volume in itself; therefore, it will only be necessary here to note the several engagements in which it took a very prominent part:
1863 Triplet Bridge, Ky., June 19; Lebanon, July 5; Lawrenceburg. July 9; Sal- vica. July 10; Buffington's Island, Ohio. July 19; Winchester, Ky., July 25; Salineville, Ohio, July 26; Lancaster, Ky., July 30; Stanford, Ky., July 31: Kingston, Tenn., Sep- tember 1; Cleveland, Tenn, September 18; Calhoun, Tenn., September 26; Athens, Sep- tember 27; London, September 29; Philadelphia, October 23: Sweet Water, October 26; Lenoir Station, November 12; Cambells, November 16; Knoxville, November 13; Rut- ledge, December 10: Ream's Station, December 14; New Market, December 25.
1864 -- Mossey Creek. Tenn., January 10; Dandridge. January 17; Fair Garden, January 24; Sevierville, January 27: Kenesaw Mountain, Ga., July 1; Sweet Water, July 3; Chattahoochie, July 4: Moore's Ridge, July 12: Covington, July 28; Macon, July 30: Sunshine Church, July 31; Eatonton, August 1: Mulberry Creek, August 3; Henryville, Tenn .. November 23; Mount Pleasant, November 24; Duek River. Novem- ber 24; Nashville, December 14 to 22.
The regiment lost during its term of service no less than 321 men and officers, of which number twenty three private soldiers and one officer were killed in action: seven soldiers died of wounds received in action, and 288 private soldiers and two officers died from diseases caught and fostered in the field.
The command was mustered out of service at Nashville, in September, 1865. and, on the 2Sth of that month, was discharged at Jackson. The 513 men transferred from the Eleventh Michigan Cavalry, July 20, 1565. were discharged with the members of the original Eighth.
SOLDIERS RECORD.
Henry Harvey, died at Hickman Bridge September 24, 1863. Edson P. Flint, died at Hickman Bridge September 24, 1863. Luther H. Lyon, discharged April 1, 1563. Almon S. Carpenter, Austin Griffin, minors, discharged April 1, 1863. Solomon Cooley, discharged, 1863.
Robert C. Grayson, discharged March 19. 1863.
Benejah Maynard, discharged September 16, 1863. Charles G. Morse, discharged September 20, 1863.
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Daniel Lee. discharged May 17. 1863.
George N. Watson, discharged May 6. 1863. William Myers, fell at Knoxville June 26, 1864. Alonzo Maynard, fell at Knoxville June 20. 1864. Leon Matt, died at Camp Nelson October 7. 1863.
Major E. Bartlett, died at Camp Nelson March 6, 1864. Fred De Camp, died at Mount Sterling March 20, 1864. Charles Latimer, was killed by accident at Westport. Ky., July 12, 1863.
Timothy Clark, died in hospital Junnary 15, 1864. Simeon Parkes. died at Camp Nelson December, 1863. Reuben Hamlin. died at Knoxville August 15, 1864. James Smith, died at Mount Sterling March 15, 1864. Truman Sperry, missing at Macon, Ga., August 3, 1864. Samuel Chapman, missing at Knoxville, Tenn .. November 18. 1864.
Egrew Albertson, missing at Knoxville, Tenn., November 18,11864.
Alvin Fuller, George Kling. William Stroup, Forest Stock. Elliott Bacon, Edward Shanley, missing in raid on Macon August 3, 1864.
Richard L. Ford. missing at Richmond November 25, 1863.
Thomas Bleekman, missing at Richmond.
James Stevenson, missing at Annapolis April 2, 1864. Leander Sprague, missing at Richmond February 12, 1864.
Jacob A. Hunt, missing at Cleveland, Tenn., September 15, 1863.
Benjamin S. Worts, missing on Stoneman's raid August, 1864. Alvin D. Fuller, killed at Sunshine Church July 31, 1864.
Frank M. Campbell, died at Knoxvitle March 3, 1864. William Stroup, died at Annapolis Marchi 11, 1865. Elliott Bacon, died at Camp Chase April 7, 1865.
- Agnew Alberton, died at Richmond January 10, 1864.
Gardner Briggs, died at Richmond February 6, 1864. Forest Stock, died at Florence January 24, 1865. Lewis D. Whitney, died in rebel prison Jannary 26, 1865.
William Wilson, died at Mount Clemens, 1863.
Byron Wilson, died January 20, 1864.
Daniel C. Chase, died October 29. 1 864.
Seth Chase, died October 2, 1864. James Watson, died 1864.
Alten M. Frost, A. D. Stuset, Nelson Smith, Norris Lewis, Lorenzo Lutenbacker, Lo- renzo Schoonover, Lewis D. Whitney, Webster Dillrea. R. Waldron, Cory D. Stone, Henry Thede, George England. Henry Hardie, Nathan Lewis, John Day, Charles Fertz, ‹lied at Richmond November 12, 1864.
Antoine Dubay, missing on raid to Macon.
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Charles F. Guillott, died at Knoxville January 23, 1864.
Marion Wade, died at Spring Place June 18, 1864.
Judson W. Wright, died at Danbridge June 19, 1864.
William Serl, Henry C. Green. John Johnson, Ethan E. Trim, missing on raid to Macon August 3, 1864.
Discharged or transferred -John A. Eldred. Lorin Frink, Abner Porter, Henry Wil- son, Lorin Wade. F. C. Munroe, George H. Nutting. William H. Wells, Charles Van Atter, Chapman Bullis, Samuel Clark. William E. Dillrea, John Mok, Levi B. Robinson. Victor Willey. Moses Yax, Albert Farr. Stephen B. Rice, Marion Kellogg. L. Bradford, Vietor Miller, James S. Smith, Manual J. Peirera, Harmon Prieger. Isaac Newton Willson, Aaron Winchester, Henry Cook, Daniel Hazleton, John Carpenter, Isaac W. Willson, C. Harris, Levi Hoard, James H. Farrand, Hiram W. Cro ... er. James A. Ormsby. Eugene Debbault. Charles C. Hulsart, James Walker, Albert Adams. William Gamber, William C. Lyon, Charles A. Haywood. Henry Wilson, Alexander Snay, Ambrose West. Stephen Bellow, Antoine Dubay, Daniel P. Kitchen, Lawrence Lutenbacker, Joseph Shear. Albert Woolvin, Miles Wait, Rufus Waldron, Henry Thede, Jesse Gray. William May. Norris Lewis. Charles F. Guillott. Charles Fritz. Albert W. Crawford, Warren Cooley, Samuel Cooley, Webster G. Dillrea. Talbot L. Owen, Isaac Butterfield. Abel H. Blair, Martin V. Loucks, David Lanfier, James Marshall. Albert Stout, William Cargill, Nelson Blay. Jo- seph Balloy, Robert Cochrane, Franklin Church. Samuel B. Campbell, John Day, Fran- cis Dubay. Sr .. Francis Dubay. Jr .. George W. England, Joseph Fuller, Lyman Goodall. Josiah G. Hicks, Isaac Hall, Anthony Kirkier. Frank I. Kellogg, George Kling, Henry W. Lathrop, Richard Le Graff. Benjamin Miller. Norman W. Nichols, John W. Prince, Norman B. Phelps. Lorenzo Schoonover, Charles R. Woodworth. Milo Warner. James V. Whitney, James L. Horton, Owen Button. J. Homer Fishpool. Aug A. Koths, William C. Brown, William Serl. Theo C. Green. Henry Green, Royal Brown. James Cochran, John Johnson, Samuel Needham, Myron H. Butterfield. James Huntley. Sylvester Widrig, James Walton. Jeremiah Whaling.
NINTH MICHIGAN CAVALRY.
The Ninth Michigan Cavalry was organized. 1862-63. at Coldwater, and. in May. 1863. left the rendezvous" for Kentucky, leaving two companies to follow when their ranks would be filled. This regiment served in fifty-six well-fought battles and skirmishes, losing 181 officers and private soldiers during its campaign. Its regular service began at Triplett Bridge. Ky., June 24, 1863, and concluded at Morrisville, N. C., April 13, 1865. It was mustered out at Concord, July 21, 1865, and reported at Jackson for discharge July 30, 1865. There is no record of Macomb volunteers serving with this command.
TENTH MICHIGAN CAVALRY.
The Tenth Michigan Cavalry was organized at Grand Rapids, under Col. Thaddeus Foote, of the Sixth Cavalry, and mustered into service November 18. 1863, with 912 men
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and officers. The regiment left for Kentucky December 1, 1863, and entered upon duty at Burnside Point January 25, 1864, subsequently taking a prominent part in fifty-four engagements with the enemy, and ending a term of splendid service at Newton, N. C., April 17, 1865. The command was discharged at Jackson, Mich., November 15, 1865. Gavin Hamilton, discharged November 11, 1865, and Tyler Mason, discharged on the same date, were the only soldiers from Macomb with this command.
ELEVENTH MICHIGAN CAVALRY.
The Eleventh Michigan Cavalry, was organized under Col. S. B. Brown, in Angust, 1863. at Kalamazoo, which place it left for Lexington, Ky., December 17. 1863. It was consolidated with the Eighth Michigan Cavalry July 20, 1865, and mustered out with that command at Nashville, Tenn., September 22, 1865.
Alfred H. Beens, Alfred Frost and John Snyder were transferred to the Eighth Cav- alry from the Eleventh, and served with that regiment to the close of the war.
LIGHT ARTILLERY.
The soldiers of Macomb who served with the Michigan Light Artillery were:
Charles R. Cory, who died at Nashville, November 23, 1864.
Discharged in 1865-Jotham J. Braferd, William C. Thayer, Russell Kenney, James Wood, Artemus C. Cook, Isaac E. Riggs, Josiah Hulbert. Frank G. Pearsall. George Pal- mer. Moses Thomas and Charles Gamble.
With Dygert's Sharpshooters were Owen M. Higgins, Geary Lee, Windsor Norton, Barlow Davis, discharged October 25, 1862: Fred A. Smith, killed at Chancellorsville May 4. 1863; Nelson Carlton, and Isaac N. Owen, discharged February 18, 1863.
STANTON GUARDS.
Frank Kellogg, the only Macomb man in the command, was mustered out September 25, 1862.
IOWA CAVALRY.
William H. Carey entered Company A, Iowa Cavalry, January 1. 1864, and served to the close of the war.
PROVOST GUARD.
The Macomb soldiers were, Calvin Barnes, discharged May 9, 1865, and Andrew J. Cutcher, discharged May 9, 1865.
SOLDIERS AND SAILORS OF MACOMB AND ST. CLAIR.
This organization of veterans may be numbered among the great military associations of the United States. Its re-unions are characterized by a desire to do honor to the past; to keep the memory of fallen comrades green; to lay down precedents for the future. The society may be said to date its organization from August 31, 1871, when the members of the Twenty-second Michigan Infantry assembled at Romeo and elected the following offi- cers:
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President, Gen. William Sanborn, of Port Huron; First Vice President, Col. H. S. Dean, of Ann Arbor: Second Vice President, Prof. O. D. Thompson. of Lapeer; Secretary, Lient. E. G. Spaulding, of Port Huron; Treasurer, Capt. G. W. Robertson, of Mt. Clem- ens; Orator, Lieut. Irving D. Hanscom, of Romeo
Capt. Edgar Weeks delivered the oration on that occasion.
The re-unions of the Twenty-second and Fifth Michigan Infantry, and of the Eighth Michigan Cavalry, since that time have been held at various places in Macomb, St. Clair and Oakland Counties. The following poem, by William H. Clark, was read before the veterans assembled at Mt. Clemens, August 31. 1881:
Why meet we comrades, here to-day, Why gather friends; why this display" War's rude alarms are past and gone, No more we hear the warlike drum. Or fife's shrill ery.
Why burnish up our memories here? What joys or sorrows are so near. That wake to life seenes of the past. Exciting seenes, dissolving fast In days of fear.
Full twenty years have passed away. The time seems short, aye, but a day. The martyred Lincoln called for men Our glorious Union to maintain. The Nation's stay.
A Union which our fathers wrought. A land for us so dearly bought, In days when men were sorely tried. Who pledged their all. and nobly died, Not all for nought.
Columbia's sons, O know ye not That traitors would with hideous blot, Disgrace the Flag that patriots made. Strike out the stars thereon displayed, In fearful fray.
O hear ye not those threat'ning tones, Now drawing nearer to your homes, Observe ye not the coming storm. Now bursting near with loud alarm, Then why delay.
Sons of Macomb, and broad St. Clair. O see ye not that fearful glare? Which lighted up Fort Sumter's wall. The opening strife on Southern soil, O do not stay.
But rally, sons of noble sires. Light up your homes with patriot fires, Wave high, the Starry Banner high, And swear its fealty to stand by. Tho' death has sway.
Now Wayne, St. Clair and old Macomb, With Oakland, Saginaw and Livingston. And Shiawassee, all arise, The fighting Fifth to organize. And march away.
In early day, down to the front, To meet the foe, the battle's brunt, Its record shining mid the storm, We weep to find four hundred gone. So brave and true.
And the gallant Twenty-Second, too, Bravely into the breach it flew, On many a hot and bloody ground, Nobly fighting. always found, A good name wins.
And next the hardy Eighth comes on, To breast the waves of secession. With sturdy ranks and hearts so true, John Morgan's troops to interview And gain the day.
And we surviving comrades now, With wrinkles gathering on each brow, In mutual toil, privations met, The crown of victory there is set, Without display.
While mem'ry brings years that have fled, Forget not those now with the dead, Who bore with us the strife and heat, On silent camping grounds they sleep. With arms at rest.
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It is with joy, comrades, this day,
That we here meet. in peaceful way.
And in each face reflecting bright, Preserved, though scarred from war's sad blight, All hail this day.
A Country saved, united land, A Union worthy to command
True freedom in its broadest sense,
"Liberty and Union " its defense, Hail glorious land.
The meeting held at Mt. Clemens in September, 1881, was perhaps the largest and most enthusiastie of all the happy re-unions of Michigan troops. Among the guests were Capt. W. F. Atkinson, Col. Wormer, Col. W. D. Wilkins, Col. Duffield, Col. Pulford and others, of Detroit: Col. Dean, of Ann Arbor; Chaplain Jaeokes, of Pontiae; George F. Lewis, and others from home and abroad. Several old battle-flags stood upon the stage, among them the torn banner of the old Fifth. Col. Farrar was President of the Day. Mayor Russell made an address of greeting, in which he cordially welcomed the visitors. He considered that Mt. Clemens was honored by their presenee; the homes and hospitali- ties of her people were at their disposal. The Mayor touched upon the pleasures of the re-union, principal among such being the renewing of old friendships formed amid the trials of war, the recital of the experiences of eamp and field. Veterans of the Fifth could fight again Fair Oaks and the Wilderness, while the hearts of the Twenty-second would warm once more as they told of Chattanooga.
Capt. W. F. Atkinson delivered the following oration:
" We are again together, not so many as of old, not so young as we were, but with the same true hearts, with the same love for our country, and willing, if necessary, to risk our lives for its preservation. As the good citizens of Mt. Clemens kindly entertain us, we will renew the friendships of the camp, and march, and battle-field, turn back on memory's golden wings and call up faces long since among the missing; tramp again over the hard stone roads and hills of Kentucky, Tennessee and Virginia, and sing onee more the good old songs that echoed so sweetly on the Southern air. At times like this, we can forget the bones that ached and the heels that were blistered, and remember the camps in beautiful groves, and the mellow squeak of the Confederate shoat as a bayonet sacrificed him on the altar of liberty.
The delicious odor of boiled hen and sweet potatoes comes to me now as sweetly fragrant as the rose, while the flame from the top rail curls gracefully round the camp kettle and soars upward to the clouds, where the spirits of departed foragers whitf it with joy. We will be boys again for a day, and let the world take care of itself.
Michigan sent none but good regiments to the war, and none of them did her more honor than the ones you represent. There is in the hearts of the people a great love for and pride in the fighting Fifth. Its glorious record commeneed early in the war, and on every battle-field of Virginia new laurels were won. One by one, sometimes hundreds at a time, brave men fell from its ranks, but always with their faces to the for. Its flag was ever seen in the thickest of the fight, and was never lowered. Many a brave man's blood was given for that flag, and it is to-day, torn and tattered though it be, one of the fairest jewels in Michigan's erown of glory.
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". Tattered. torn is the beautiful fag For which our brothers fonght and fell, Tattered, it looks like a very rag, That flag they loved so well.
** ' But when on resurrection morn Gabriel sounds the reveille, In answer to the Angel's horn A gallant sight you'll see.
" .. For once again the fighting Fifth Their glorious banner high shall lift. And place it where in Heavenly hall 'Twill wave the proudest of them all.'
I can see some of the boys smile at the idea of Col. Farrar and Maj. Matthews becoming angels, but yon know heaven's ramparts are to be stormed when taken, and the old regiment will go at them and over them as it did over the rebel breastworks at Cold Harbor, at North Anna, at the Wilderness and at Petersburg, where its flag was first to wave on the rebel works. On a May day nineteen years ago, the ladies of Mt. Clemens presented to a cavalry regiment then just organized, a silken flag. On its face shone a star for every State. It was the flag of Washington, of Jackson, of human liberty -the Stars and Stripes; and as the eloquent tongue of your honored citizen, Robert P. Eldredge, told them to take and protect that banner for the sake of themselves, their homes, and the generations yet to be, every man of the gallant Eighth vowed to shield it with his life, and well they kept that vow. The regiment was baptized in blood before it was out a week. It captured John Morgan. It'swept over Kentucky and Tennessee, carrying death in its path to the rebel foe. The mountains of Georgia heard the clatter of its horses' hoofs. It was with Stone man at the Chattahootchie and Macon, and it faced Longstreet day by day, when the Union army fell back on Knoxville. It was in thirty-nine battles, and the soil of four States has been made holy by the blood of its men. What has become of its beautiful flag I do not know, but the ladies who gave it did not trust in vain. Men of the Eighth Cavalry, you may well feel proud of your old regiment, and I did not wonder when I heard that your brave old comrade, Col. Wormer, claims that it is higher honor to be a member of the Eighth than wear the stars of a Major General.
Of the Twenty-second Michigan, what can I say that will even faintly do justice to that splendid regiment? Its men are dearer to my heart than those of any other, for I shared with them the many joys and sorrows of a soldier's life. I saw them as, with prond steps and gallant bearing, they filed out of the fair-ground at Pontiac. No body of men were ever better calenlated for their work, and never in the trying scenes of war did they falter in the line of duty. I saw them day by day, on the march and in the camp. on the skirmish line and in the battle, do honor to their country and their State. They helped to drive the rebels from Kentucky. They marched with Rosecrans through Tennes- see. They forced their way over the mountains of Northern Georgia, and reached Chick- amanga to find the Union army on the retreat, badly beaten and demoralized. They were
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ordered to the front to stop the onward march of the victorious rebels while the rest of the army formed a new line. You all know the history of their terrible fight. You have heard of the gallant charge they made; how,
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