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COLONEL W. D. MANN.

AN
HISTORICAL SKETCH

SEVENTH PIMENI
VOLUNTEER CA!

From Its Organization, in 1862, to Its Muster
Out, in 1865.
BY
ASA B. ISHAM,
Late First Lieutenant Company "F." Historian of the Regiment.

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PREFACE.

At a re-union of the Seventh Michigan Cav
alry Association, held at Battle Creek, Mich.,
in October, 1890, A. B. Isham was elected His
torian, and was instructed by Lieut. J. Q. A.
Sessions, the Secretary of the Association, to
prepare a brief chronologically-connected ac
count of the regiment during its existence as a
military organization in the service of the
United States, from 1862 to 1865.
The choice fell upon one who had been
widely separated from, and an entire stranger
to, all his old companions in arms since the
close of the War, and upon one, also, who could
devote but little attention to the work desired.
The materials available for the purpose were
the meagre entries in a diary kept during the
War, the very incomplete official reports con-

PREFACE,

tained in " Michigan in the War," and the re
collections of minds somewhat dimmed by
time, together with the numerous accounts
published since the War of the service of other
organizations which touched incidentally upon
that of our own. Upon such a basis the whole
story has been constructed, a part of which
was read before the Association at its meeting
in Detroit in August, 1891, receiving its en
dorsement, and the balance was presented at
the meeting at Grand Rapids in October, 1892,
where it was all approved by the Association.
The generous offer of Colonel William D.
Mann, the first commander of the regiment, to
print the matter at his own expense for free
distribution to the Association, first sending
out proof -slips with wide margins to the vari
ous members so that any omissions might be
supplied or errors corrected, was unanimously
accepted with thanks. The Colonel has faith
fully discharged his assumed obligation, and
we have here presented a record of service in
the War for the Union that we regard with a
considerable degree of satisfaction. That it is
not by any means complete, we realize full well.
Many heroic deeds of individual valor are un-

PREFACE.

recorded ; many a gallant soldier fails to receive
the notice he deserves, and many an engage
ment in which the regiment battled conspicu
ously with signal results is passed over with
bare mention. Recognizing and regretting the
defects, which are many, this sketch of the
regiment's history is freely given to the old
comrades for what it is worth, with the wish
that they may see to read between the lines
whatever should have been included
Information has been furnished by Col. Geo.
G. Briggs, Lieut.-Col. D. H. Darling, Major J.
L. Carpenter, Captains J. B. Loomis, H. N.
Moore, Wm. H. Fisher, S. B. Mann, Surgeon
Geo. R. Richards, and by Lieutenants J. Q. A.
Sessions, Geo. W. Hill and E. R. Havens, to
all of whom thanks are returned.
THE HISTORIAN.

COLONEL W. D. MANN.

AN HISTOEICAL SKETCH
OF THE
SEVENTH EEGIMENT MICHIGAN
VOLUNTEEK CAVALRY
FROM ITS ORGANIZATION, IN 1862, TO ITS MUSTER OUT,
IN 1865.
By Asa B. Isham,
Late First Lieutenant Company "F."
Historian of the Regiment.
r I "iHE Seventh Michigan Cavalry was one of the
-*- regiments that the Honorable F. W. Kellogg
had special authority from the War Department to
recruit. The nucleus for its organization was found
in an overflow of men from the Sixth Cavalry, and
consisted of detachments from Niles and Battle Creek
that had arrived in Grand Rapids the 24th and 25th
of September, 1862. These detachments subsequently
became Company " A," and were mustered into the
United States service the 13th of October, 1862, at
the same time that the muster of the Sixth Cavalry
was proceeding.
On the fourth of November Colonel William D.
Mann, who had been commissioned as Colonel of the

SEVENTH REGIMENT

Kegiment, arrived and took command. Colonel Mann,
who had gone out as Captain with the First Michigan
Cavalry and had much experience in the early part of
1862 in fighting Colonel Turner Ashby, the famous
Confederate cavalry leader of the Shenandoah Valley,
had conceived that a somewhat differently equipped
and mounted cavalry force was desirable in the
Virginia campaign. He had submitted to the War
Department a scheme for a regiment of mounted
rifles and a battery of light artillery. This scheme
had received the endorsement of General John P.
Hatch, then holding a command in the Valley, and
other experienced officers of the old Army, and was
promptly accepted by Secretary Stanton, who, with the
consent of the President, granted authority to Captain
Mann to raise such a regiment in Michigan, if the
consent of the Governor of the State could be obtained.
To secure this, and for other reasons, Captain Mann,
accepting the Lieutenant-Colonelcy for himself, ten
dered the Colonelcy of his newly-authorized regiment to
Lieutenant-Colonel Copeland, of the First Michigan
Cavalry. This regiment of mounted rifles, later known
as the Fifth Michigan Cavalry, and the battery of
hght artillery known and greatly famed later in the
War as Daniel's Battery, were recruited and organized
to the full number of nearly 1,400 men, and mustered
into the service within eight days from the date of
Lieutenant-Colonel Mann's arrival in Detroit. It was
as magnificent a body of vigorous young soldiers as
ever was mustered. Although Colonel Copeland was

MICHIGAN VOLUNTEER CAVALRY. 9
commissioned as the Colonel, he never took command
of the regiment, which remained under the command
of Lieutenant-Colonel Mann until the latter was
commissioned Colonel of the Seventh Regiment of
Cavalry on the 1st of November.
A camp called Lee Barracks was formed at Grand
Rapids by the erection of rough board structures,
one story in height, that were added to from
time to time as recruits came in, slowly but
surely. Enlistments lagged; for so many recruits
had already gone, that men could not well be
spared from the farm, the workshop, the counting-
house, and other departments of industry. Large
bounties were not offered at that time to draw men
into the service through cupidity, and a draft was not
impending to frighten ; so that those that did enlist
were actuated by promptings of the purest patriotism.
The war had progressed far enough to make it plain
to everyone of average intelligence that it was to be
continued and bloody. Therefore, those that went in
at this time faced the prospect of three years of
battle and peril for the poor inducement of thirteen
•dollars a month, hard tack and bacon included. With
the hazard so out of proportion to the compensation,
it is not remarkable that there was not the same im
pulsive patriotic ardor to fill up the ranks of organiz
ing regiments that was exhibited in the first year of
the contest, when the war was regarded more in the
light of an ephemeral frolic, than the prolonged, san
guinary struggle it was destined to become.

10 SEVENTH REGIMENT
It is not intended to dwell upon life in rendezvous at
Grand Rapids. There were dismounted drills — squad,
company and battalion drills. Even yet in the ear
rings the emphatic ejaculations of the old drill-master,
Captain Bothan : " Oh stupid ! stupid ! even an ox
may be taught to know right from left, but ye will
never learn." Also, before the vision rises the First
Lieutenant of Company " C," afterward a Major, with
a pocket full of rocks, that, with a volley of blood
curdling oaths, he was wont to discharge at any luck
less wight that miglit miss step or fall out of line.
Not to be overlooked is the dashing Russian ad
venturer belonging to the battery, that gave us
instruction in the sabre exercise : " Guard ! One !
Two ! Three ! Four ! " Cut and point ; moulinet and
parry. Tall, broad-shouldered, graceful, agile, reti
cent, and plausible in speech, jaunty in dress and
in carriage, with facial scars from fence, which he
claimed were those of battle, he was the well-trained,
unprincipled soldier of fortune that was playing fast
and loose with our organizing volunteer soldiery, with
great diversion to himself, and at no expense.
He disappeared "between two days," leaving
officers that had made him cash advances, and a
number of love-lorn maidens, to mourn because he
was not.
The wintry blasts will not fail to be remembered by
the raw recruits. The barracks and company mess-
quarters were like sieves, through which the keen,
cold air circulated freely. It was too cold to sit down,

MICHIGAN VOLUNTEER CAVALRY.

11

and meals were therefore eaten standing, with every
muscle in the body undergoing exercise.
At night blanketed forms huddled around the red-
hot stoves, giving no heed to the demand for sleep,
in the endeavor to keep warm, and, " wishing for the
war to cease." Nights around the stove in the Com
missary's storeroom — when feasting upon juicy hunks
of meat rolled up in wet brown paper and broiled
upon the coals by Harvey Hyde and Hank DeGraff,
and a snug berth under the Quartermaster's pile of
blankets with Dan McNaughton and Charley Pratt —
are cherished memories.
The advent of horses correspondingly increased the
limits of camp, and
added greatly to
its activities.
Never was a regi
ment sent out of
Michigan with
better mounts.
The animals were
inspected for pur
chase by Captains
Warner, Douglass,
and Armstrong, in l||l|
connection with
QuartermasterLyon, all practical
horsemen ; there
fore very little poor stock found its way in under

FARNHAM LYON,
Captain and Assistant-Quartermaster.

12 SEVENTH REGIMENT
their supervision. Feeding, grooming, mounted drill,
dress parades, and inspections now kept every one
astir. Biting, kicking, rearing, and bucking horses
made life a burden to those that had drawn them,
while they occasioned a high degree of hilarity
among those that bestrode more decorous beasts ; but
the wayward were gradually toned down and brought
in to subjection.
Having a minimum of men for ten companies, they
were mustered into the United States service Tuesday,
January 27th, 1863, as a regiment by Lieutenant-
Colonel James Oakes, of the United States army.
Official acknowledgment of regimental existence was
received Thursday, February 19th, 1863, and with it
orders to move to Washington. On the 20th the
horses of the first five -companies, with a detail of
twenty men from each of; these companies, left Grand
Rapids under command of Captain Warner. On the
21st the horses of the other companies, with a. similar
detail from each, were forwarded under command of
Major Newcombe, and on Sunday the 22d the main
body of the regiment took cars for the front, leaving
Major Granger and Lieutenant Sproul, of Company
" C," with a few men to take care of the barracks and
recruit Companies "L" and "M."
Our departure was notable only in that but little
attention was given to it. The papers merely
mentioned the fact that we were ordered off to
the seat of war. If any able editor saw a Napo
leon in each of us, and believed we would

MICHIGAN VOLUNTEER CAVALRY. 13
end the rebellion in thirty days, he kept it religiously
to himself. No ladies appeared upon the scene to
present us with " housewives " and " havelocks ;" no
lunches were spread. Our martial ardor was not
fanned by sword and flag presentations. No soaring
orator pointed us to the achievements of antiquity,
and predicted that we would have eclipsed all of them
before the Ides of March. The near and dear ones of
the few that belonged to Grand Rapids and its im
mediate vicinity were there to bid us Godspeed and
a safe return, and pathetic partings were not wanting.
At stations along the route to Detroit there were
similar affecting incidents. But, on the whole, we
slipped off quietly, like men that had fighting to do,
and were going to do it. And history shows that
we did it. From the first general " baptism of
fire " at Hanover, Pa., June 30th, 1863, we were
ever at the front, keeping a tight hold on the skirts
of the enemy, until the final victory at Appomattox
compelled his surrender.
Reaching Washington February 27th, after a day
or two spent in barracks, a camp was assigned to us on
Meridian Hill. It was a delectable spot — two steep
hillsides, bisected by a deep ravine. The ground was
soft and mushy from rain, and the tents were hardly
pitched, before a wet snow came upon us to the
depth of several inches. The horses were knee-deep in
the cold ooze, without shelter. There was no fuel for
fires, except the sticks from the hay-bales ; there was
no flooring for the tents, and no choice for rest but to

14 SEVENTH REGIMENT
spread the ponchos on t^je semi-fluid mud, to settle
down and wallow in it, turning from side to side in
the effort to keep jsajajsn. Tlie sick list rapidly
increased. The surgeons' tent — in a sea of slush — was
thronged at sick-call by a sorrowful, shivering crowd,
and the surgeons — rheumy-eyed, with blue and
dripping noses — dealt out quinine with lavish hand,
but spoke no words of cheer. If anywhere, during
all our service, we were more thoroughly miserable
than during the first weeks on Meridian Hill it has
escaped the memory.
It was here the famous " Guard of Honor " was
organized, consisting of two picked men from each
company, by which great things were to be accom
plished, in accordance with orders from regimental
headquarters. It made a good charge at Gettysburg,
but after that battle the members were returned
to their companies, and the existence of the " Guard"
was ended. On the 25th of March we received
Burnside carbines, which completed our armament,
sabres and Colt's army revolvers having been dis
tributed at Grand Rapids. According to the Adju
tants' return for this day, the strength of the regi
ment was 783: 43 officers and 740 men. The 26th
of March, under marching orders for Fairfax Court-
House, we were ordered to reduce baggage and camp-
equipage to a war-footing. As nearly every man had
a valise and a very respectable kitchen outfit, the con
sternation produced by this order may be imagined.
It was amusing to watch the sorting over of personal

MICHIGAN VOLUNTEER CAVALRY. 15
effects in order to leave^. behind what might be
deemed an encumbrance. A little pile would be placed
to one side, only to be in^ari^bly taken up again as
material indispensable. This indecision finally ended
by throwing away the valise ; but the contents were
rolled up in a blanket, or poncho, and strapped on the
back of the saddle ; and, in addition, kettles, stew-
pans, skillets and coffee pots were universal trappings ;
so that when the Column moved off at 7 o'clock in the
evening, it bore the appearance of a caravan of junk-
dealers, rather than a regiment of horse in battle
array. However, it did not take many marches to
dispose of superfluities: the common sense of the
American soldier soon asserted itself. It took twenty-
five wagons to move the regiment from Meridian
Hill to Fairfax Court-House, and then everyone com
plained that everything had to be left behind. In
course of time the regiment possessed but one wagon,
and this one would not be seen by us for weeks.
We left Meridian Hill after dark of the 26th and
made a night march, crossing Long Bridge with ad
vance guard thrown well out to the front, with a
nervous expectation of meeting the enemy at any
moment. There was not an armed force of rebels
within perhaps 50 miles, but it was probably the
most " heart-in-the-mouth " march we ever made.
Fairfax Court-House was reached about five o'clock
in the morning of the 27th, and a camp-site was
assigned us one mile to the north of the town.
Our baggage train had not come up and we had no

16

SEVENTH REGIMENT

tents. With orders to be ready to move at any time,.
we stood by our horses in a drenching rain until well
into the night, when the rain turned to snow, which,
by morning, had fallen to the depth of ten inches.
Our clothes were frozen, and nothing to make a fire
out of could be found during all that long, dreary
night. No men ever rejoiced more to see Old Sol
rise in his glory than did we on the morning of the
28th. During the
day our camp
equipage arrived.
As a consequence
of the exposure of
the night before>
Capt. S. B. Mann,,
of Company "F,"
contracted a pul
monary trouble
which led to his
honorable dis
charge from the
service the month
of July follow
ing, to his own
regret and that of
the regiment, by
Here we were
Michigan Cavalry
command of Gen.

B. MANX,
Captain Company '

which he was greatly esteemed.
united with the Fifth and Sixth
regiments into a brigade under
Joseph T. Copeland, in General Stahl's cavalry di

MICHIGAN VOLUNTEER CAVALRY. 17
vision, Department of Washington. On the 28th it
rained the latter part of the day, and we were
ordered out at midnight, but after remaining
mounted in line in the rain for half an hour,
the order was countermanded. The night of
the 29th we were again ordered out, with the
same result. At three o'clock on the morning of
the 31st we again took to horse, in obedience to
orders, and once more went back to our blankets.
Contrary to expectations, the one most disturbed by
these night-alarms was the Surgeon, who, from pre
vious training, should have regarded them as but
pleasant reminders of life at home. This day, March
31st, snow fell to the depth of six inches. Again, on
April 5th, there was a snowfall of eight inches. The
days it did not snow, cold rains were sent upon us, so
that those that bore up under these vicissitudes were
seasoned forever after against any inclemencies of
weather. If any old soldier of the Seventh be at loss
to know what he should claim a pension for, he can
base it upon our first two months of field-service, for
he had exposure enough during that time to have laid
the basis for any ill whatsoever.
On the 14th of April we marched to Occoquan,
where we remained picketing, scouting the country,
and drilling until April 25th, when we moved to
Bristow Station, arriving there the 28th. Here we
remained in a camp well barricaded with brush, beat
ing up the country in all directions until May 5th,
when we moved to Kettle Run, not far from Catlett's

18 SEVENTH REGIMENT
Station. Sunday, May 3d, Mosby captured the outpost
of the First Virginia Cavalry, under Major Steele,
near Warrenton Junction. He was driven off by the
Fifth New York Cavalry, and a large portion of his
force was captured, while the prisoners he had taken
were released. We rushed to the scene of conflict,
but it was all over when we arrived. On the 10th of
May camp was changed to Warrenton Junction.
Monday, May 11th, a foraging party, under Lieu
tenant Gray, returning from the direction of Warren
ton with Sergeant-Major Loomis and Sergeant Isham
in the advance, was fired upon, when about two miles
from camp, by some of Mosby's force concealed in the
woods. The men behaved courageously, charging
upon their assailants through the woods, and chasing
them across the country. Nobody was hurt, but the
guerilla camp was found and, with its equipage,
destroyed. At daylight, the morning of the 14th of May, while
out on a scout with four companies, Colonel Mann
sent a sergeant and two men under Sergeant Isham to
Marstellers to examine the premises for concealed
arms. Upon reaching the house they were fired upon
by six rebel soldiers hiding within. Private Robert
McLain, of Company " E," was instantly killed, Private
Kitchen, of Company "E," slightly, and Sergeant
Isham, of Company " I," severely wounded. The ser
geants maintained their position, firing into the door
with their revolvers until the enemy beat a retreat
out the back way and thereby escaped to the woods.

MICHIGAN VOLUNTEER CAVALRY. 19
In the column, coming up shortly afterward, Corporal
Waldron W. Raymond, of Company " E," discovering
a rebel hiding in the bushes, shot and killed him.
These were the first casualties in the regiment,
and the men were so incensed at the family for
harboring lurking foes, that they were with diffi
culty restrained from burning down the house.
May 17th, moved from Warrentown Junction to
Kettle Run.
On the 29th of May Mosby captured a train of cars
near Catlett's Station by removing a rail. He made
away with his booty, but was brought to bay at
Grapewood Farm, near Greenwich Church, by the
Seventh Michigan and First Vermont Cavalry, which,
under command of Colonel Mann, had promptly set
out in pursuit on hearing Mosby's guns. After a
spirited action Mosby's two Napoleon brass guns
were captured, and a number were killed and wounded
on both sides. Among the prisoners was a heroic
young Virginian, who declared he would die before
he would surrender, but was taken alive all the same,
although badly wounded. Among the casualties was
a Captain Hoskins, an Englishman. He belonged
to an English family of distinction, and had been
serving with Mosby. Altogether, it was a glorious
victory, and put us in high feather. In this fight a
soldier of Company " C " had Mosby a prisoner for
fifteen minutes, until he was re-captured by some of
his own band. The captor in turn was made prisoner,
but he escaped the next day to tell his story, which

20 SEVENTH REGIMENT
was corroborated by a rebel surgeon we captured
soon after at Goose Creek.
Up to the 24th of June there is no particular record
of the service of the regiment. It was engaged
between Bealeton and Centerville, guarding the rail
road line of communications with the Army of the
Potomac in scouting the country along this line and
in outpost duty. At no time, perhaps, during all our
campaigning, were we more destitute of food, forage,
and clothing than at this period, for the Army of the
Potomac absorbed everything, and supplies that we
sorely needed were guarded safely to their destination.
The 24th of June, 1863, found the brigade massed
with the division at Fairfax Court-House, Va., and at
two o'clock on the morning of the 25th the march to
repel Lee's invasion of Maryland and Pennsylvania
began. Proceeding by way of Dranesville, the Poto
mac was crossed at Edwards Ferry the evening of the
25th. That night we bivouacked in the mud, just out
side of Urbana, by order of General Stahl, who rode
in fine soldierly style in a covered spring wagon
drawn by four white mules. Frederick, Md., was
reached the 26th, where an all-night's rest greatly re
freshed men and horses, and, on the morning of the
27th, the march was resumed up the Cotoctin Valley,
in the direction of Gettysburg. Up to the 30th we
were scouting the country in all directions in the
vicinity of Gettysburg. On the 29th, General Stahl
was superseded in his command by General Kilpatrick,
and General Copeland by General Custer, and the First

MICHIGAN VOLUNTEER CAVALRY.

21

Michigan Cavalry was joined to the brigade. On tlie
30th the regiment, which was at Abbottstown, with
the First Michigan and Battery " M " 2d U. S. Artil
lery, moved to Hanover, where the brigade was united,
in order to oppose the attempt of Stuart to effect a
junction with Lee. The part taken by the regiment
in the engage
ment that fol
lowed, as well
as those of
Hunterstown
and Gettys
burg, is briefly
told in the re
port of Major
Geo. K. New-
combe :
" At Han
over, Pa., on
the 30th of
June, the regi
ment, having
its rapid return
into position on
left and front of
Two squadrons

MAJOK GEO. K. NEWOOMBE.

the advance of the brigade in
from Abbottstown, was thrown
the left of the turnpike, to the
Battery 'M' 2d U S Artillery.
were dismounted, and advanced as skirmishers under
the command of Lieutenant-Colonel Litchfield. In
the progress of the action, the regiment was moved to
the right of the town as a support to Battery ' M.'

SEVENTH REGIMENT

The skirmishers, having advanced beyond the town
and exhausted their ammunition, were withdrawn.
About five o'clock in the afternoon Companies 'C,'
'H' and 'E,' under command of Major Newcombe,
were sent to occupy the town, which they took pos
session of and held
until night, when
the enemy with
drew. " At Hunters-
town, on the 2d of
July, the regiment,
except one squad
ron held in reserve,
was advanced on
the left as dis
mounted skirmish
ers. " At Gettysburg,
on the 3d of July,
on the extended
right of our line
during the early part of the day, the regiment, as a
reserve and as a support to Battery ' M,' occupied
various positions upon the field. About four
o'clock in the afternoon the regiment was ordered to
charge the advancing line of the enemy's skirmishers,
who were strongly supported by their cavalry reserve.
A desperate but unequal hand-to-hand conflict here
occurred. The regiment, being finally obliged to re-

GEN. GEO. A. OUSTER.

MICHIGAN VOLUNTEER CAVALRY. 23
tire, rallied twice under a sharp fire from the enemy,
without support or cover, and returned to the charge,
and held the field until the advance of the First
Michigan." Gen. J. H. Kidd, in his address at Gettysburg,
graphically describes this charge :
" Just then a column of mounted men was seen ad
vancing from our right and rear, squadron succeeding
squadron, until an entire regiment came into view
with sabres gleaming and colors gaily fluttering in the
breeze. It was the Seventh Michigan, commanded by
Colonel Mann : Gregg, seeing the necessity for prompt
action, had ordered it to charge. As it moved for
ward and cleared the battery, Custer drew his sabre,
placed himself in front, and shouted, ' Come on, you
Wolverines !' The Seventh dashed into the open field
and rode straight at the dismounted line, which, stag
gered by the appearance of this new foe, broke to the
rear and ran for its reserves. Custer led the charge
half-way across the plain, then turned to the left ; but
the gallant regiment swept on under its own leaders,
riding down and capturing many prisoners.
" There was no check to the charge. The squadrons
kept on in good form. Every man yelled at the top
of his voice until the regiment had gone probably one
thousand yards straight toward the Confederate bat
teries, when, by some error of the guide of the lead
ing squadron, the head of the column was deflected
to the left, making a quarter turn, and the regiment
was hurled headlong against a post and rail-fence that

24

SEVENTH REGIMENT

ran obliquely in front of the Rumniel barn. This
proved, for the moment, an impassable barrier. The
squadrons coming up successively at a charge, rushed
pell-mell upon each other, and were thrown into a
state of indescribable confusion, though the rear com
panies, without order or orders, formed left and right-
front-into-line along the fence and pluckily began
firing across it into the faces of the Confederates, who,
when they saw the impetuous onset of the Seventh
thus abruptly checked, rallied, and began to collect in
swarms upon the opposite side. Some of the officers
leaped from their
saddles and called
upon the men to assist
in making an opening.
Among these were
Lieutenant Geo. G.
Briggs, acting Adju
tant, and Captain H.
N. Moore. The task
was a difficult and
hazardous one, the
posts and rails being
so firmly united that it
could be accomplished
only by lifting the
posts, which were set
deeply, and moving several lengths at once. This
was finally done, however, though the regiment was
exposed to not only a fire from the force in front,

HEMAN N. MOOEE,
Captain Company " K."

MICHIGAN VOLUNTEER CAVALRY. 25
but to a flanking fire from a strong skirmish line along
a fence to the right, and running at nearly right angles
with the one through which it was trying to pass.
" While this was going on, Briggs' horse was shot,
and he found himself on foot with three Confederate
prisoners on his hands. With these he started to the
rear, having no remount. Before he could reach a
place of safety, the rush of charging squadrons from
either side had intercepted his retreat. In the melee
that followed, two of his men ran away ; the other
undertook the duty of escorting his captor back to the
Confederate lines. The experiment cost'him his life,
but the plucky adjutant, although he did not run
awa}7, lived to fight again on many another day.
" In the mean time, through the passageway thus
effected, the regiment moved forward, — the centre
squadron leading, — and resumed the charge. Before
it the Confederates at once fell back. The charge
was continued across a plowed field to the front and
right up to, and past, Rummels, to a point within two
or three hundred yards of the Confederate battery.
There another fence confronted it, the last one in
the way of reaching the battery, the guns of which
were pouring canister into the charging column as
fast as could be fired. Two men, Privates Powers
and Ingelede, of Captain Moore's company, leaped
this fence and passed several rods beyond. Powers
came back without a scratch, but Ingelede was severely
wounded. These two men were certainly within
two hundred yards of the enemy's cannon.

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" But seeing that the enemy to the right had
thrown down the fences and were forming a column
for a charge, the companies of the Seventh fell back
through the opening in the fence. Captain Moore,
in whose company sixteen horses had been killed,
retired slowly, endeavoring to cover the retreat of
his dismounted men ; but, taking the wrong direction,
he came to the fence one hundred yards above the
opening, just as the enemy's charging column struck
him. " Glancing over his shoulder, he caught the gleam
of a sabre, thrust from the arm of a sturdy Confeder
ate. He ducked to avoid the blow, but received the
point upon the back of his head. At the same time a
pistol ball crashed through his charger's brain, and the
horse went down with Moore's leg under him. An
instant later, Moore avenged his steed with the last
shot in his revolver, and the Confederate fell dead at
his side. Some dismounted men of the Thirteenth
Virginia Cavalry took Moore prisoner and escorted
him back to the rear of their battery, from which
position, during the excitement that followed, he
made his escape."
In his report General Custer says : " I at once
ordered the Seventh Michigan Cavalry to charge the
advancing column of the enemy. The ground was
very unfavorable for the manoeuvring of cavalry, but,
despite all obstacles, the regiment boldly advanced to
the assault, which was executed in splendid style, the
enemy being driven from field to field, until our

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27

advance reached a high and unbroken fence,
behind which the enemy was strongly posted.
Nothing daunted, Colonel Mann, followed by the
main body of his regiment, bravely rode up to the
fence, discharging re /ol vers in the very face of the
foe. No troops could have maintained this position.
The Seventh was therefore compelled to retire,
followed by twice the number of the enemy."
Lieutenant J. L. Carpenter, of Company " F," was
severely wounded
and taken prisoner
by the enemy. He
fainted from loss of
blood and was left
by his captors on
the field, where he
was subsequently
picked up by our
own men. Lieu
tenant J. G. Birney,
of Company "C,"
was also wounded
and captured, but
he effected his es
cape the same day.
Stuart's attempt,
with four brigades of rebel cavalry, to turn the
Union right on the last day at Gettysburg, was
foiled, principally by the determined resistance
and impetuous onslaughts of the Michigan Cavalry

MAJOR JAS. l,. CARPENTER.

28 SEVENTH REGIMENT
Brigade. Of the regiments composing that organi
zation, none are entitled to more laurels for the part
performed on that historic field than the Seventh
Michigan Cavalry. Although the smallest regiment
in the brigade, it suffered the greatest loss of any.
With twenty-nine officers and four hundred and
thirty-two men — four hundred and sixty-one in all —
present for duty, thirteen men were killed, four
officers and forty-four men wounded, and thirty-nine
men were missing. This was nearly double the loss of
the Fifth, with seven hundred and seventy present for
duty, and over one-fourth greater than the loss of the
First, with five hundred and two present for duty.
The Sixth, with six hundred and eleven present for
duty, suffered a loss of twenty-eight in killed,
wounded, and missing. It is a distinction we are
not disposed to estimate lightly, that our casualties
exceeded those of any other cavalry regiment engaged
in the battle of Gettysburg. Of the part taken by the
Michigan Cavalry brigade at Gettysburg, Captain
Charles King, U. S. A., has written :
"Virginia's beautiful division of cavalry, plumed,
stately, superb, rides forth from the screening forest
to overwhelm the Union ranks. Oh, well for Gregg
and his gallant few in the worn old Second Division —
well for the hard-used Army of the Potomac — well
for the cause of freedom and union is it that Custer
and the Wolverines are still there !
* * # # * *
" The hoarsely shouted ' Charge !' the glorious

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29

burst of cheers ! the wild fury of the onset ! the crash
and shock of the meeting hosts — and Virginia's grand
advance is done. Michigan has tackled and downed
her in mid-field. Hand to hand, blade to blade, Stu
art's veterans, Custer's eager boys are clinched in
furious fight, with the Wolverines on top.
* -x- * -x- -x- *
" Hacking, hewing, hammering now, the Union
blues surround the baffled legion, powerless in its
very weight, and so,
slowly, gradually, al
most imperceptibly
at first, the gray
horsemen are borne
backward up the
field, back through
the dense dust cloud,
and at last, dissolv
ing before the tor
rent, they turn and
flee and seek the
distant shelter of the
wood, their breath
less conquerors chas
ing at their heels.
-Stuart's grand assault is turned to
soldier lives who does not envy
Michigan that day? It was the cavalry combat of
the war !"
On the morning of the 4th orders came to march

JAMES G. B1RNET,
Captain Company " C.'

Like Pickett's —
naught What

30 SEVENTH REGIMENT
in pursuit of the fleeing army of Lee, who, during the
night before, had decided to get back to " Ole
Virginny " as quickly as possible. Our route took us
directly across the field of the hot infantry and
artillery fighting of the day before. All will remember
the awful spectacle presented. In places several
bodies had been heaped together to clear the way for
the column to pass, so thickly had the ground been
strewn with the fallen in that great battle. That
afternoon and night there was a fearful thunderstorm,
and the scene was one of great grandeur, as, marching
on the hill road, the clouds and lightning seemed, and
in fact were, below us in the valley. In the midst
of pouring rain and intense darkness, save when light
ning brought an instant of illumination, the head of
the column, which was held by the Seventh, was met
by a volley of canister shot from two pieces of artil
lery posted in the roadway at Monterey Pass,
directly in front of the summer hotel. As the road
was still ascending, the gunners, miscalculating our
distance away, aimed too high, and no harm from the
first discharge came to us. The column promptly
charged and in a few minutes the position was ours,
together with the cannon and a good many prisoners.
All night the march was kept up, fraught with con
siderable fighting, rewarded by the capture of many
prisoners and some four hundred wagons of the
enemy's trains.
The remainder of the campaign is included in the
report of Major Newcombe :

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31

" At Smithburg, July 5th, the regiment supported
Battery ' M ' and occupied the extreme right.
" At Hagerstown, July 6th, the regiment, having
supported the battery in the early part of the affair,
was afterward advanced on the right, nearly past the
town, when it was dismounted and thrown forward
as skirmishers, driving the enemy beyond the town,
when it was recalled."
Capt. Wellington Willets, Company " E," was
taken prisoner at Hagerstown, and held in the various
prisons of the South until the spring of 1 865.
" At Williamsport, the same day, we supported a bat-
.< tery. Companies ' L '
and ' M ' joined the
regiment at Boones-
borough, July 8th,
1863, where the regi
ment that day, in the
early part of the
action, supported Bat
tery ' M ' on the right
of the Hagerstown
road. As our line of
skirmishers was fall
ing back, Major New
combe, with his bat
talion, dismounted
uaelan b. coohban, and advanced to its
First Sergeant Company " F." supp0rt. The line
advanced under a heavy fire, and drove the enemy

32 SEVENTH REGIMENT
from the woods. Reinforcements coming up, a
charge was made and the enemy was driven from the
fleld. The remainder of the regiment supported the
skirmishers and was exposed to a heavy fire.
" On the 12th of July the regiment, being attached
to the First Brigade, entered, with it, Hagerstown,
under a sharp fire from the enemy. In the afternoon
the regiment was advanced to support the infantry
at the extreme right of the town.
" At Falling Waters, July 14th, upon coming into
action, Major Granger was dispatched to the right,
where, dismounting a part of his command, he soon
took from the enemy a ten-pounder Parrott gun,
that, after having turned against the enemy with
great effect, he brought from the field. Another
part of the regiment went to the support of the
skirmishers, and the remainder as a support for
Battery 'M.' The enemy's column advanced to
charge the battery, when that part of the right sup
porting it — seventy sabres — advanced to the charge
and brought from the field four hundred prisoners,
with the battle-flag of the Fifty-fifth Virginia. The
dismounted skirmishers of the Seventh captured the
Colonel of the Fifty-fifth, with several other officers
and a squad of men." Here was killed Orderly
Sergeant Cochran, of Company " F," as noble a youth
as ever died for his country. The flag was captured
by Sergeant (afterward Lieutenant) Chas. M. Holton,
of Company " A." This flag was sent by General
Kilpatrick to the War Department, where it was

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33

turned over by Secretary Stanton to Colonel Mann to
be held as a trophy, and in whose possession it still
remains. In the
charge on the
Fifty-fifth Vir
ginia, Lieutenant
Dodge and Ser
geant Cochran
were in the ad
vance. The enemy
discharged a vol
ley that killed
Cochran and put
twenty-seven bul
lets into the horse
of Private Dopps,
of Company " F,"
in the first set of
" fours," breaking
every one of the animal's legs. Dopps himself was
only scratched.
After a few days' much needed rest we again
crossed the Potomac into Virginia, and participated
in engagements at Snickers' Gap, July 19th ; Kelly's
Ford, September 13th ; Culpepper Court-House,
September 14th ; Raccoon Ford, September 16th ;
White's Ford, September 21st, and Jack's Shop,
September 26th.
In the retrograde movement from the Rapidan,
the enemy was met October 9th near James City ; on

CHARLES M. HOLTON,
First Lieutenant Company "CV

34

SEVENTH REGIMENT

the 10th, participated in the battle of Brandy
Station, where Buford's and Kilpatrick's divisions
were surrounded by the rebel infantry and cavalry.
The Michigan Brigade charged through and cleared
the river front of the enemy, so that the whole com
mand was withdrawn in good order. From the 11th
to the 19th we were active in guarding the flank and
rear of the army. On the 19th, after skirmishing
from Gaines
ville to Buck-
land's Mills, a
heavy engage
ment occurred
at the latter
place with the
enemy's infan
try and cavalry.
Here Lieuten
ants Briggs and
Holmes were
taken prisoners,
but succeeded in
running the
guard in the
night, and found their way back to our lines, after
undergoing severe hardships.
The enemy, falling back toward the Rapidan, was not
again encountered until the 19th of November — at
Stevensburg, and the 26th of November at Morton's
Ford. In the affair of the 26th, the regiment cap-

R. II. HOLMES,
Second Lieutenant Company

£.'¦

MICHIGAN VOLUNTEER CAVALRY. 35
tured a number of prisoners from the rear of the
rebel column. An incident of this action is worthy
of record. Just before the engagement, Captain
Warner, of Company "B," had been compelled by
sickness to drop behind his regiment. General Custer,
finding him away from his command, placed him
under arrest and took away his arms. The Captain
pushed forward and rejoined the command just as it
was going into action. Unarmed as he was, he rode
in the forefront, and, catching a fully-armed rebel in
his arms, he drew him from his horse, placed him
across the pommel of his saddle and carried him to
General Custer, who, it is needless to say, restored the
Captain his arms and rescinded the order of arrest.
The season's campaign being now over, we settled
down into winter-quarters near Stevensburg, Va.,
picketing the line of the Rapidan about Morton's Ford.
By utilizing the material of abandoned and partly
dismantled houses, comfortable winter-quarters were
arranged ; and, although the camp was flat and muddy
in wet weather, it was pleasant to be at rest after the
hardships of the campaign. While here, may be
mentioned an issue of whisky, that illustrates the
inexhaustibility of a barrel of commissary whisky, as
well, also, as the fact that some men have acquired a
reputation for capacity in storing it away that they
do not deserve. All will recollect the cold New
Year of 1864. On that day the brigade Quarter
master was ordered to dispense whisky on orders of
regimental and company officers. Accordingly, your

36 SEVENTH REGIMENT
historian was ordered to repair to the brigade
Quarter-master's in order to vouch for the signatures
of the officers of his regiment— a duty, by the way, he
was not loth to undertake, since it augured the
probability of participating in a good New Year's din
ner with the Quarter-master. Like the obedient soldier
he was, he at once betook himself to the old mill,
where was installed the Quarter-master. While
yet a little way off, wrapt in the admiration of the
architectural glories of the structure, he heard the
official discoursing softly to his force in a strain like
this : " Now, you have drawn off two buckets for
brigade headquarters, have you ?" " Yes," was the
answer. "Well, fill in two buckets of clear cold
water from the mill race, and draw off four buckets
for regimental headquarters, and fill up again from
the mill race. Then fill the orders for the personal
use of the company officers, and, as the barrel goes
down, fill up from the mill race, and even then there
is many a man that will get a good deal more whisky
than he ought to have." The picket detail left camp
after dinner, the weather at that time being fairly
comfortable. Long before night it turned cold, and
early in the night it was necessary to relieve the
outposts once an hour. Even then the men were
nearly frozen, and not a man slept in reserve, but
hovered closely about the huge log fires that had been
built in order to keep from freezing.
When the regiment had settled in winter quarters,
Colonel Mann went to Washington to lay before the

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37

Ordnance Department the improved system of cavalry
and infantry accoutrements which he had designed, and
which had already received the commendation of
General Meade and most of the general officers of the
Army of the Potomac. The War Department decided
to order a quantity of them for trial, and sent Colonel
Mann to New York to procure and supervise their
manufacture. This device, of which General Grant
wrote, " I believe no one invention yet made will do
more to promote
the efficiency of
the Army,"
proved so success
ful, and tha Gov
ernment gave
such large orders
for their manu
facture, that the
matter seemed to
demand the con
stant attention of
Colonel Mann,
and, unwilling to
accept a detail to
ordnance duty
while nominally
Colonel of a reg
iment fighting at the front, he resigned on March 1st,
devolving the command on Lieutenant-Colonel Litch
field.

A. ( . LITCHFIELD,
Colonel aud Brevet Brigadier-General.

38 SEVENTH REGIMENT
On the 25th of January, 1864, a recruiting detail
was sent to Michigan under charge of Captain D.
H. Darling. The party returned about the middle of
April, having obtained some recruits, although not
nearly as many as had been expected and were needed.
On the 28th of February one hundred picked men
and horses of the regiment, under Lieutenant-Colonel
Litchfield, left camp at Stevensburg, on the raid to
Richmond, under General Kilpatrick. Beaver Dam
Station, on the Virginia Central Railroad, was reached
the afternoon of the 29th ; and, after destroying the
station and track, the march was resumed, and the
defenses of Richmond encountered the afternoon of
March 1st. Here we remained for several hours
awaiting the sound of Colonel Dalghren's signal gun
on the other side of Richmond, when we were to dash
into the city and release the Union prisoners there
confined. But Dalghren was betrayed by a negro
guide and killed, and the signal was not given. Dark
ness coming on, we moved off a few miles into a pine
swamp, where we went into bivouac. About midnight
a superior force of the enemy, with artillery, attacked
the camp. The explosions of the screaming shells
crashing through the trees made the horses unruly,
and, as it was pitch dark, with the enemy, who was
familiar with our position, assailing us front and flank,
and, being unsupported, we were compelled to fall
back some distance, suffering a loss of forty-four men
missing. These, in the backward movement, were cut
off, together with Colonel Litchfleld, who made a most

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39

heroic and gallant effort to check the rebel advance,
dealing death and destruction in the ranks of the
enemy, the last ball in his revolver piercing a rebel
brain at the mo

ment he was seized
by three others and
borne down. Cap
tain John A. Clark
and Lieutenant S.
B. Carll were also
captured. Colonel
Litchfield and Cap
tain Clark were im
mured in the dun
geon with negro
soldiers at Libby
Prison until June,
1864, when they
were removed to
Macon. Ga.

JOHN A. CLARK,
Captain Company "7."

The regiment, with the division, made its way to
Yorktown, arriving there March 4, where the boys
surfeited themselves with oysters, crabs, lobsters and
fish, and on the 11th of March embarked on trans
ports for Alexandria, Va., whence they returned by
easy marches to the camp at Stevensburg, reaching
there the 18th of March.
About the 1st of April General Kilpatrick was
ordered to the West ; the brigade was transferred to
the first division, forming the first brigade under our

40 SEVENTH REGIMENT
old commander Custer, while General A. T. A. Torbert
was assigned to the command of the division. At the
same time our camp was moved over to the hills near
Culpepper Court-Honse.
Kilpatrick had many traits that commended him to
soldiers, and it was not without regret we saw him go
away. In his little speech to his assembled division,
before departure, he said, that it was with great sorrow
he spoke the parting word to men whose courage
had been tested and not found wanting on many a
hard-fought field. Better soldiers did not exist than
those of the Third Cavalry Division, and while he might
find troops equally brave in the department to wliich
he was ordered, his heart would yearn for the tried
and true men of his old command, that had won victory
after victory, and had given him a soldierly renown
dearer tohim than all else ; that the appellation " Kill
cavalry " had been unjustly applied to him ; that
the welfare of his troops had been ever prominent
in his mind, and that if the losses in his division had
been heavy, it was because the exigencies of the service
had engaged them more constantly in conflict with
the enemy than other divisions of the cavalry. In
parting, he assured them of his continuing interest,
and said that the best wish he could express was, that
their new commander might have as much consider
ation for them as he could conscientiously say he had
always entertained and displayed.
Toward the latter part of April, a spark of discord
was kindled by the action of the Brigade Provost-Mar-

MICHIGAN VOLUNTEER CAVALRY. 41
shal, Lieutenant Bayliss. One Sunday, by order from
brigade headquarters, the regiment was assembled,
dismounted, upon the parade ground, a little distance
from camp, for dress parade and inspection. While
this was in progress, the provost-guard stole into camp,
overawed the camp guard, and seized and made
away with a number of horses from each company.
Upon their return the men were justly exasperated at
this high-handed proceeding, and loaded their car
bines with the intent of moving at once upon
brigade headquarters to rescue their horses, even if
they had to lay out the provost-guard to do it. After
much persuasion on the part of the officers, the men
were induced to permit the commanding officer and
adjutant to go as envoys in their stead, who succeeded
in effecting a prompt return of the horses ; and thereby
was averted a movement that, from the spirit mani
fested, might have had a serious ending.
About the first of May there was a division review
on the hills overlooking Culpepper, and we were
found in proper condition for the campaign under
the Corps leadership of glorious Phil Sheridan.
Wednesday, May 4, 1864, tents were struck, and,
in light marching order, our column was headed for
the Rapidan. At Stony Mountain we bivouacked, where
we broke up our Burnside carbines and received
Spencer repeating carbines in their stead.
On the 5th of May the Rapidan was crossed at Ely's
Ford, and, after marching all day, a halt for the night
was made on tlie Fredericksburg plank road near

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SEVENTH REGIMENT

Chancellorsville, a little in advance of General Grant's
headquarters. About two o'clock, on the morning of
the 6th, we were
in the saddle, mov
ing into the Wil
derness. The burn
ing furnace was by
turns a pillar of
fire and cloud.
Near daylight, the
intersection of the
Furnace road and
Brock's pike was
reached, where a
lively engagement
with the enemy
was already in pro
gress. Turning off
to the right the
regiment was placed in the open as a support to a
battery of Greggs' division, which position was occu
pied nearly all day, mounted, in full range and view
of the enemy's guns. Our brigade had an engage
ment with White's rebel brigade, driving it from the
field and capturing a number of prisoners. At night
we were drawn off in haste to the Furnace, where we
were treated to a bugle concert, that continued for a
long time and seemed spread over all creation.
At daylight, the morning of the 7th, we were
again on the battle-ground of the preceding day, where

GENERAL PHILIP SHERIDAN.

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43

the rebels were found waiting to contest the field.
Although they made a stubborn fight, toward the
middle of the
afternoon, they
were whipped, and
were driven from
the field, with a loss
of many prisoners.
Bivouac for the
night was made
upon the battle
field, the air un
pleasant with the
odor of decompos
ing horses. The
lullaby to sleep was
the song of the
bullet ; since, under
cover of darkness,
the " Johnnies " had returned, and, pushing their
picket line up close to ours, were engaged in short-
range picket-firing.
Sunday, May 8, we were moved farther to the left,
as an infantry support ; but the Sixth Corps pushed
back the enemy, and we marched to Locust Grove
and camped for the night.
Monday, May 9, the Cavalry Corps being massed,
we moved round the right flank of Lee's army, on the
march toward Richmond. At Beaver Dam Station
an immense amount of rebel supplies was captured

DAVID SARGENT,
Captain Company " H. v

44 SEVENTH REGIMENT
and destroyed, together with two railroad trains.
About four hundred of our men, under rebel escort
to Richmond, were recaptured. It was after dark
before we bivouacked. During the night we were
several times disturbed by attacks upon our pickets,
and once we were compelled to shift location by a
lively cartridge fusillade from a rebel ammunition-
wagon that had been captured and set on fire.
Before daylight of the 10th we were again on the
move, but proceeded more slowly on account of the
work of destroying the railroad and of the attacks
of the rebel cavalry upon our rear, going, at last, into
bivouac for the night on the south side of the South
Anna river. At dawn, the morning of the 11th, our
pickets were sharply assailed, but the enemy quickly
drew off, and the line of march toward Ashland was
resumed. About 10 o'clock, at the intersection of the Tele
graph road with the Brock pike, the battle of Yellow
Tavern was opened by Stuart, who had interposed
his corps to the left and front of our advance upon
Richmond. At the beginning, the regiment was
sent into the woods dismounted, as a reserve for the
Fifth and Sixth Michigan ; but, as they pushed the
enemy, it was withdrawn, remounted, and followed
by fours in the wake of the First Michigan in its
charge upon the rebel battery. From the hill,
whence the battery was dislodged and a portion of it
captured, we were ordered by General Custer to
charge up the Telegraph road into the woods. The

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45

charge was executed right gallantly, Major Granger
leading ; and a rebel column behind a barricade in the
road was driven back in disorder. But here — by some
order from the rear that has never been explained —
sheer poltroonery, or a monstrous blunder on the
part of the second in command — the regiment was
wheeled about and retired, leaving perhaps twenty
or twenty-five men to continue the charge, with the
Major commanding. Lieutenant Isham, of Company
" F," was in command of the first squadron, the left
being in front, by
inversion, and he
therefore rode by
the side of Major
Granger. The rebel
forces, giving way
in our front, left
an isolated group
of horsemen about
a battle flag about
one hundred yards
to our left, on
higher ground than
the road we were
moving along. This
group formed a
good target for our
revolvers; for, from the dust and battle smoke in
our immediate front, we could scarcely distinguish
fritnd from foe. There is little doubt that General

GEORGE W. HILL,
First Lieutenant Company " Or."

46 SEVENTH REGIMENT
Stuart was in this group ; and it was on that spot, and
during our charge, that he fell mortally wounded, as
will appear later.
Shortly after passing the barricade, Major Granger
was missed, but it was not known that he had fallen?
instantly killed by several bullets, that must have
struck him simultaneously. The charge of the
squad continued up to the bridge, from which the
enemy was beginning to remove the planks, when
Lieutenants Isham and Hill, with but five men left,
three of whom were wounded, being completely
surrounded and about to be annihilated, surrendered.
Major H B. McClellan, — Stuart's chief of staff, — in
his work on the " Campaigns of Stuart's Cavalry,"
referring to the charge of the First Michigan, says,
page 413 :
" The enemy's charge captured our battery on the
left of our line and drove back almost the entire left.
Where Captain Dorsey was stationed — immediately
on the Telegraph road — about 80 men had collected,
and amongst these the General (Stuart) threw him
self, and by his personal example held them steady
while the enemy charged entirely past their position.
" With these men, he fired into their flank and rear
as they passed him in advancing and retreating, for
they were met by a mounted charge of the First
Virginia Cavalry and driven back some distance. As
they retired, one man, who had been dismounted in
the charge and was running out on foot, turned as he
passed the General, and, discharging his pistol,

MICHIGAN VOLUNTEER CAVALRY. 47
inflicted the fatal wound. When Captain Dorsey
discovered that the General was wounded, be came at
once to his assistance, and endeavored to lead him to
the rear ; but the General's horse had become so un
manageable, that he insisted upon being taken down
and allowed to rest against a tree."
This disposes of the story that Stuart was killed by
private Jno. A. Huff, of Company " E," Fifth Michi
gan Cavalry. If Huff produced the exhibition of a
" spread eagle " for Colonel Alger's diversion, he
practiced his marksmanship upon another officer than
General Stuart. The pistol ball that ended the
career of the rebel cavalry chief was fired by a dis
mounted or mounted man of either the First or the
Seventh Michigan Cavalry. That it was the latter
appears more probable from the following circum
stances : The First, after capturing the guns beyond
the Telegraph road, passed over the hill into a ravine
and held its ground. Here, while it had full occupa
tion, it was never forced back to the Telegraph road,
where — according to his chief of staff — Stuart had
stationed himself ; and, consequently, it is not prob
able that any of its dismounted men would have come
within pistol range of him. On the other hand,
the Seventh, which followed the First closely to
the hill, whence the battery was dislodged, charged
down the hill, across a ravine, and immediately up
the Telegraph road into the woods, those in the van
encountering a rebel column of fours in the road,
which they drove back on the dead run and became

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mixed up with. It was into the " flank and rear " of
this column that the fire was poured as it passed, and
any dismounted man of the Seventh " running out "
must directly have passed Stuart's position had he
been on the Telegraph road, where his staff officers
have located him. In further corroboration is the
fact that to the
left of the Sev
enth's line of
charge was a
group of mounted
men about a bat
tle flag, as already
mentioned. Im
mediately after
Lieutenant Ish
am' s surrender
near the bridge,
a rebel soldier
came riding up
through the
woods from the
direction of the
battle flag, spread
ing the intelli
gence that Stuart was shot. Upon asking Lieutenant
Hogan — serving as an aide to the General — if it was
true, he responded " Yes ;" and on further inquiry
as to the location, he pointed toward the battle flag
and said, " Right down there in the woods." This

wmm^^^i

ASA B. ISHAM,
First Lieutenant Company " F."1

MICHIGAN VOLUNTEER CAVALRY. 49
spot, as near as could be judged of the distance tra
versed in the excitement of a charge, was at least a
quarter of a mile to the left of the First Michigan's
line of charge.
An incident of the engagement that came under
observation pertained to Sergt. Samuel Post, of Com
pany " H." Fully six feet high, dark complexioned,
broad shouldered, and of powerful muscular develop
ment, he proved himself a veritable lion in battle,
and died a hero. Only sudden glimpses could be had
of him in the dust and smoke, but, from the time we
struck the rebel column, his imprecations and sabre
blows could be heard as he rode in advance of all
others, and the weight of his sword arm, as it dealt
blow upon blow, caused many a trooper in gray to
bite the dust. After the regiment had fallen back
across the brook and re-formed, Captains Loomis
and Fisher advanced their squadrons, dismounted,
on either side of the road over the route pursued
by the squad with Major Granger, past the bridge
and to the top of the hill beyond. In returning
they brought back the body of Major Granger,
and gave it burial in the grove in front of Yellow
Tavern. It was about five o'clock in the afternoon when our
charge was concluded. Then there was a general
advance all along the line, and the Confederates,
beaten at all points and dejected by the fall of their
chief, beat a precipitate retreat. Thus ended the
battle of Yellow Tavern, and the command took a

50

SEVENTH REGIMENT

well-earned rest for a part of the night on the field it
had won.
An invaluable officer was lost to the regiment
through the death of Major Henry W. Granger.
Physically up to
the highest mark of
a soldier — straight
as an arrow and
well proportioned
— he was not lack
ing in any of the
attributes required
for field service in
the face of an en
terprising foe ; but
was cool in action,
resolute, vigilant,
and bold. So highly
was he valued by
General Custer
that, in order to
fill his place, he was constrained to detail that
heroic officer, Major Melvin Brewer, of the First
Michigan Cavalry, to command the regiment, and
who became ours not only nominally, but in fact, by
promotion to the lieutenant-colonelcy in June, 1864.
Major Brewer was once before in command of the
regiment during the Kilpatrick raid, just after Colonel
Litchfield was captured. He was at that time
assigned to the command on account of Captain

MAJOR HENRY "W. GRANGER.

MICHIGAN VOLUNTEER CAVALRY. 51
Sproul's refusing it because he was not the ranking
Captain. In this signal discomfiture of Stuart's corps the
main object of the expedition was accomplished ;
for Meade — after Sheridan's remonstrances in the
Wilderness about the misuse of his cavalry — had
testily directed Sheridan to take his force off and
whip Stuart, which Sheridan declared he could do.
But although he had done a thorough job, he
was not content to return until he had thrown Jeff
Davis and the whole of rebeldom into consternation
by menacing Richmond, and, accordingly, about one
o'clock on the morning of the 12th of May, the com
mand took up its line of march over the Brock pike
for Meadow Bridge on the Chickahominy. Here,
after a severe engagement, in which the Seventh
took a prominent part, a crossing was effected and
the enemy routed with a heavy loss — in dead, wounded
and prisoners. The brigade then moved to Gaines'
Mills and bivouacked.
May 14th we marched to Malvern Hill and
remained in that vicinity until the 17th. While
here, communication was established with General
Butler's army. On the evening of the 17th we were
again on the move, to effect a junction with the Army
of the Potomac. On the 18th we recrossed the Chick
ahominy, at Jones' Bridge, reaching Baltimore cross
roads the middle of the afternoon, where we remained
until the 20th, when the brigade was detached to sever
railroad connections about Hanover Court-House.

52 SEVENTH REGIMENT
After destroying two trestle bridges and a mile of
railroad track, besides capturing a considerable
amount of stores, we encamped at Hanovertown, re
turning to Hanover Court-House on the morning of
the 21st ; but, as the enemy was gathering in strong
force, we marched over to White House Landing,
crossed the Pamunky, and rested for the night about
one mile from the river.
On the 23d of May we moved over near Dunkirk,
where we passed the night, and on the 25th rejoined
the Army of the Potomac.
May 26th we were again in the saddle, on the way
to Darney's ferry, on the Pamunky, which was
reached about midnight and found occupied by
Butler's Brigade of Cavalry. The river was crossed
in the face of the enemy, that, after a sharp fight,
was driven away, leaving a number of prisoners in
our hands. The Seventh, together with the Fifth
Michigan, then marched to Hanovertown, and pro
ceeded in the direction of Hawe's shop ; but, after
going a short distance, was called to the assistance of
the First and Sixth Michigan, which had been
assailed by a superior force of the enemy. Coming
in upon the enemy's rear by a cross road, the Seventh
made a sabre-charge upon their left with such spirit
that the enemy fled across Crump Creek and was
driven three miles, with the loss of four killed, seven
wounded, and thirty-seven captured, together with
the loss of a large number of horses which fell into
our hands. It was the Maryland Independent Cavalry

MICHIGAN VOLUNTEER CAVALRY

53

Brigade that was treated so unchivalrously. We
bivouacked at Crump Creek, and on the morning of
the 28th marched to Eanon church, by way of Hawe's
shop, to the relief of Greggs' division, which was
engaged with the
enemy. The troops
fought dismounted,
owing ,to the thick
woods and under
brush. The engage
ment was very hot,
the Seventh especially
being exposed to a
severe fire ; but the
enemy was defeated
with terrible loss.
Butler's Brigade of
South Carolina Cav
alry was roughly
handled, and the loss
es, in some of the
seven regiments composing it, were so great as to
nearly annihilate them. They had exhausted their
ammunition, were huddled together, and, as they
would not surrender, were shot down in droves.
Possession of the ground was held until after dark,
when we marched back to the Pamunky and en
camped near Tolopotomy creek. Our loss in this
engagement was one killed and eighteen wounded ;
one, E. A. Hawly, suffering the loss of a leg.

Fir.

J. Q. A. SESSIONS,
Lieittenant Company "D."

54 SEVENTH REGIMENT
On the 29th of May we crossed the creek and
made camp near New Castle ferry and there remained
until three o'clock in the afternoon of the 30th, when
we inarched to Old Church, where General Merritt,
with the reserve brigade, was engaged with the
rebels. The Seventh was sent dismounted, with the
First Michigan on the left ; and, after a hard fight,
the enemy decamped, leaving his dead and wounded
and a large number of prisoners. At Parseley's
Mills, on the Matadequin, we went into camp. The
middle of the afternoon of the 31st we marched
toward Cold Harbor, where the reserve brigade,
under Merritt, had encountered a heavy force of
rebel cavalry, infantry and artillery, strongly posted.
With the assistance of Custer's troopers they were
routed, leaving their dead and wounded on the field.
All that night we remained in position, sleeping
on our arms. On the morning of June 1st, we were
attacked by a superior force of the enemy's infantry,
which made a determined attempt to dislodge us, but
were repulsed with great slaughter. This was a
strategic point that the General of the army had no
idea the ca\alry could take or hold ; but, after he dis
covered we had it, we were ordered to hold it at all
hazards ; and we maintained ourselves against Ker
shaw's and Hoke's rebel infantry at great odds until
relieved by the Sixth Corps, when we marched back
to Parseley's Mills.
The 2d of June we moved to Bottom's Bridge
and encamped, going thence on the 4th to Old

MICHIGAN VOLUNTEER CAVALRY. 55
Church tavern ; on the 5th were at Shedley's near
Hawe's shop, and at Newcastle ferry on the 6th. On
the 7th we crossed the Pamunky near Ayletts, where
we lay until the morning of the 8th, when we
marched to Henning Creek. On June 9th we moved
to Young's Bridge, and reached within a few miles
of Louisa Court-House on the 10th.
About dawn, on the 11th of June, the Seventh was
attacked on the Court-House road by Wickham's
rebel brigade of cavalry. Being supported by the
First Michigan, the Seventh maintained its ground,
and the enemy drew off. The brigade then marched
over a wood-road to Trevilian Station, where it was
expected to unite with the other brigades of the
division under Torbert. Merritt and Devin, with their
brigades, moving by tlie direct road, encountered the
enemy in dense timber about three miles from the
station; while our brigade, on reaching the station,
was in the rear of Hampton's division — between it and
Fitzhugh Lee's division, which was on the Louisa
Court-House road, and inarching to join Hampton.
The Fifth Michigan, in a mounted charge, captured
Hampton's train of horses and wagons ; but, in his
zeal to make captures, Colonel Alger proceeded too far
with his regiment, and was cut off by the enemy, who
took advantage of the gap in the line made by the
Fifth, rushed in, and began a desperate struggle for
the possession of his captured property, that he finally
succeeded in retaking. Custer was now surrounded
and invested by Hampton and Fitzhugh Lee.

56

SEVENTH REGIMENT

The Seventh made a number of sabre charges,
driving the enemy back, relieving the pressure, and
giving time to adjust the lines. By spirited dashes
it saved the guns of Pennington's battery several times
when the battery
was hard pressed,
and recaptured a
considerable part of
the brigade train
that had fallen into
the hands of the
enemy, and also
secured a large
number of prison
ers at the close of
the action. The
other brigades of
the division, to-
gether with
Greggs' division,
succeeded in rout
ing the enemy after we had been for some time en
gaged, and thereby relieved us from a warm position,
besides enabling us to secure about five hundred
prisoners in the flight of the enemy.
We had been fighting in an irregular circle extend
ing over a large territory, a circle the bounda
ries of which were continually changing. The enemy
was energetically and constantly contracting it, at all
points, while we were as industriously engaged in ex-

JOHN B. MASTEN,
First Lieutenant Company "JLf."

MICHIGAN VOLUNTEER CAVALRY.

57

tending it here, there, and everywhere; and there was
no place of safety anywhere. To illustrate the close
and desperate nature of the fighting, it is but neces
sary to mention the fact that Lieutenant Carver, of the
Seventh, and the Confederate General, Wade Hamp
ton, emptied their revolvers at each other over one of
the guns of a Rebel battery. And that neither
received a scratch, although both were good marks
men with the pistol and were not more than ten
feet from each other, further attests the difficulty of
hitting a mark
when on horseback,
with both men and
horses in a state of
wild excitement.
Our Assistant
Surgeon, Dr. Geo.
R. Richards, was in
the hottest of the
fray, giving atten- J
tion to the wound- ||
ed. Amid a shower ffl
of balls, in which it ''¦¦¦
seemed that nothing
could escape alive,
he stanched the
blood-flow from a
wounded sergeant of Pennington's Battery "M,"
Second U. S. Artillery, removed him to a more
sheltered location, and amputated a leg. In every

GEORGE R. RICHARDS,
Surgeon.

58 SEVENTH REGIMENT
engagement this devoted medical officer was ever at
the front, giving succor to the injured. He bore a
charmed life, and never received a scratch during his
entire service, although under fire as often as any
other member of the regiment.
Sleeping on our arms, we remained all night on the
field and until four o'clock in the afternoon of the 12th,
when the march was taken up toward Gordonsville.
After proceeding a few miles the enemy was found
in strong force and position. The Seventh was
pushed forward, dismounted on the right of the rail
road, and hotly engaged the enemy. Soon the
engagement became general ; but, the enemy being
too strongly posted, our forces were withdrawn, after
fighting for some time to no purpose and with heavy
loss. About midnight we set out for the north branch
of the North Anna river, which was crossed about
daylight of June 13. Here we encamped.
An account of the battle of Trevilian Station by
Private Daniel Eldridge, of Company " D," is here
introduced :
" In the first day's fight at Trevilian Station, General
Custer's command was surrounded on every side, the
enemy numbering ten to our one. As the Seventh
Michigan Cavalry followed the Fifth Michigan Cav
alry down, after they made the charge past the station,
I was near the head of our regiment, and we halted
on the left of our line some few rods south of the sta
tion, without an enemy in sight. Just then Custer and
his staff came up and halted for a few minutes. I heard

MICHIGAN VOLUNTEER CAVALRY. 59
General Custer tell our commander that we had the
' Johnnies surrounded,' and, pointing to the right, he
said, ' Torbert is over there on the next road, and we
will soon make a charge.' Before the words were fairly
out of his mouth our pickets were driven in upon us
by a rebel column charging in open order. We were
dismounted, resting, and so sudden was the onset that
we had barely time to mount our horses before they
were upon us. We were ordered to the left, and
passed through a narrow point of woods out into
an open field, and tried to form a line of battle. Just
then a large force of rebels charged on us from the
southeast, and there was spirited fighting on all sides.
We met and resisted charge after charge. Custer's
colors went down three times, and the last time, as
the color bearer was shot, the General, after endeav
oring in vain to wrest the staff from the color-bearer's
death grip, and being closely pressed by the enemy,
tore the colors from the standard and thrust them in
his bosom, declaring that the rebels would have to take
his life before he would give up the flag. In one of
the charges some sixty or eighty of us were cut off and
forced to the south. I think there was a whole division
of the rebels, and as soon as we were cut off from the
main body of our command, they pursued us most
vigorously. I had captured a flag, but did not think
in the excitement to tear it off the standard, so I car
ried it about two miles and then threw it into the
brush, only caring to save myself. We finally got
away from the rebels, and, after wandering about all

60 SEVENTH REGIMENT
day and all night, discovered our pickets about day
light in the morning, and rejoined our command, witli
whicli we took part in the second day's fight.
" The second day's battle was fought with the men
entirely dismounted. The rebels had thrown up
earthworks during the night. Their works extended
across the railroad, and were on a high ridge in the
open fields, with batteries in the rear of their works.
In front of their works was a field ten or twenty rods
wide, then dense woods about half a mile through.
Our army was on the north side of the woods.
" On the morning of June 12, after drawing all the
ammunition we could carry, our skirmish line began
to advance through the woods, and drove the rebel
skirmishers behind their works. We advanced up to
the edge of the field, in front of the rebel works, and
then began one of the hottest battles I saw during
the Rebellion. Our men crawled up on their hands
and knees to the rail fence that ran along the edge of
the woods, when we opened on the enemy, the most
of us lying flat on the ground behind trees and logs.
We fought Indian style, every man to suit himself.
Our foes were in easy range, and every time we saw
one we fired, and the way they poured lead at us was
terrible. Soon their batteries opened on us, and they
tried to shell us out of the woods. We could not
reach their gunners with our carbines, but kept
pegging away at their men in the works. They en
deavored to get their batteries to fire on the rail fence,
but only a few shells took effect, as the shells mostly

MICHIGAN VOLUNTEER CAVALRY.

struck the trees twenty and thirty feet above us, or
went on into the woods. The trees and branches
were falling on all sides, and every minute or two
some of our boys
would be killed
or wounded. We
lay in this posi
tion for several
hours, firing all
the time until
our cartridges
were gone.
Some of the men
had used eighty
or one hundred
rounds apiece.
A sergeant came
around and
made a detail to
go back about a
mile to the train
for cartridges. I was one of the detail. We went to
the train, each filled up two nose-bags full of cartridges,
and started back to the front, distributed the ammuni
tion as best we could, and took our places in the line.
This was about four or five o'clock in the afternoon. A
charge was soon sounded. Over the fence we rushed
and went for their works, and carried thirty or forty
rods of their earthworks along the railroad, but could
hold them for only a few minutes, as the battery in their

DANIEL M'NAUGHTON,
First Lieutenant and R. Quartermaster.

62 SEVENTH REGIMENT
rear soon compelled us to fall back, with half our
men left on the field. Just inside the rebel works
was an old log house. Some of the Johnnies ran into
the house, and a Frenchman of the Seventh Michigan
Cavalry, who had been wounded, after them. I was
a few steps behind him ; he was swearing and talking
in French, and had already shot two Johnnies. The
rebels were wildly throwing up their hands and trying
to surrender. I said to him, ' those men have surren
dered.' He clubbed his carbine, jumping up and
down like a wild man, and saying all the time, ' me
no take prizone ! me no take prizone ! ' The John
nies could not understand his language, and were
scared to death. They were so frightened they looked
pale. We soon fell back to the woods and fired a
few rounds. As it was now getting dark, we fell
back to our horses, mounted, and began to retreat.
This ended the two days' terrible bat tie at Trevilian
Station, of which history has not much to say.
" As nearly half of Custer's staff and guard had
been killed or wounded, there was a detail made to
fill their places. When we halted that night it was
my luck to be one of them, and I was placed on
guard at Custer's tent."
On the 14th of June we moved from the North
Anna river to Shady Grove Church and remained
there until the 15th, when the march was resumed,
and we went into bivouac near Guinea Station. The
16th found us eight miles beyond Newtown. On the
17th we encamped in the vicinity of Walkertown.

MICHIGAN VOLUNTEER CAVALRY.

63

The 18th brought us into proximity to King and
Queen Court-House, and on the 19th Dunkirk was
reached. The Mattapony river was crossed on the
20th, and we rested for the night near the Pamunky.
Then we crossed the Pamunky near White House on
the 21st ; and on the 22d, as advance escort to the
train of the Army of the Potomac, crossed the Chick-
ahominy at Jones' Bridge, and encamped near the
river until the morning of the 24th, when we marched
to Charles City
Court - House,
encampin g
there for the
night. On the
25th, reaching
the vicinity of
the pontoon
bridge over the
James river at
Deep Bottom,
we remained
there until the
28th, and then
crossed to the
south side of
the James over
the pontoon.
Thence we marched to Prince George Court-House
on the 29th, and on the 30th advanced to near Ream's
Sia'ion and encamped. The movement across the

JOHN H. HAMLIN,
Captain Company " C.1

64 SEVENTH REGIMENT
James to Ream's Station was for the relief of Wilson's
division of cavalry, that had been severing the rail
road communications west and south of Petersburg,
and that had been encompassed by the enemy's in
fantry and cavalry, and severely punished. Wilson,
however, had extricated himself, and we were too late
to be of any assistance. From Ream's Station we
marched back to Light House Point, which we
reached the 2d of July, and where we remained
until the 26th of the month, resting and recuperating
from the fatigues and losses of the campaign.
The casualties in the regiment during the campaign
were : One officer and twelve men killed, one officer
and ninety-eight men wounded, and two officers and
thirteen men missing — a total of one hundred and
twenty-seven. On the afternoon of July 26 we marched to Deep
Bottom, crossed over to the north bank of the James
river with Hancock's corps during the night, and on
the morning of the 27th became engaged with the
enemy on the New Market road. Here General Ker
shaw was encountered with tliree divisions of infantry,
by which we were driven back for a time ; but, dis
mounting and taking a stand on the crest of a ridge,
we repulsed the enemy with heavy loss, and, immedi
ately charging him across the open, captured about
two hundred and fifty prisoners and two battle flags.
This action, fought in conjunction with the Second
Corps, all under the command of General Hancock, is
known as the battle of Darbytown, and was a signal

MICHIGAN VOLUNTEER CAVALRY 65
victory, our infantry securing four pieces of artillery
and a large number of prisoners. From the 27th to
the night of the 29th we were engaged demonstrating
in front of the enemy in order to hold the bulk of
Lee's army north of the James until the Petersburg
mine could be exploded. In the early morning of
the 30th of July we re-crossed to the south side of the
James river, and proceeded to the left of our lines in
front of Petersburg, near Prince George Court-House,
and encamped for the night near Ream's Station.
On the 31st we moved back to City Point and en
camped. On the 1st of August General Sheridan was relieved
of the command of the Cavalry Corps and ordered to
the Shenandoah Valley. The First Cavalry Division
was detached with him and, accordingly, on the 1st
of August, we embarked on transports at City Point
for Washington. We arrived at Giesborough Point,
opposite Washington, on the 3d, and were disembark
ed. After a little rest, to remount our dismounted
men, to draw clothing, and to refit ourselves, we took
up the march for Harper's Ferry on the 5th of
August, the Michigan Brigade being charged with
the duty of guarding the train. We reached Harper's
Ferry the 9th, and on the 10th proceeded to Hall-
town, on the Harper's Ferry and Winchester pike, at
which place Sheridan was concentrating his army
preparatory to an advance.
General Torbert was assigned to the command of
all the cavalry in the Department, and General

66

SEVENTH REGIMENT

Merritt succeeded Torbert in command of the First
Cavalry Division. From the 10th to the 16th of
August we were moving about the country in the
vicinity of Winchester, and several times came into
collision with the enemy, but there were no engage
ments of much importance.
On the 16th of August, under command of Lieu
tenant-Colonel Brewer, the regiment was engaged in
the action at Front Royal. An official report by
Major Geo. G. Briggs says, that the regiment " charged
a whole brigade of rebel cavalry, completely routing it
and capturing one hundred prisoners, with a large
number of horses and arms." In this engagement
Lieutenant Lucius
Carver was killed
by a volley from
Longstreet's In
fantry. A bril
liant young man,
who had just at
tained to years of
manhood, of un
daunted bravery
and intense pa
triotism, with
graces of manner
and of person that
endeared him to
all, his untimely
end closed a career that promised great distinction.

LUCIUS F. CARVER,
Second Lieutenant Company

MICHIGAN VOLUNTEER CAVALRY. 67
Our loss at Front Royal was nineteen in killed,
wounded and missing. A private of Company " M "
came in after the engagement was over with his pants
burned over either thigh, claiming that a shell had
burst in his lap, taking off his horse's head and
burning his pants in the manner he exhibited.
From Front Royal the regiment inarched back to
White Post on the 17th, and on the 18th reached
Berryville, where it remained until the 21st, when,
after repulsing a determined attack of the enemy, it
was ordered back to the right of the army posted in
front of Halltown.
Up to the 25th we were engaged in scouting, pick
eting and light skirmishing. On the 25th, on the
march to Leetown, the rebel cavalry was encountered
near Kearneysville, which we drove back upon their
infantry near Leetown. From there the column
moved over to Shepardstown, where we were encom
passed by the enemy's cavalry. These were soon
driven back upon their infantry supports, but in
doing this Custer's Brigade became separated from
the rest of the division, and was enveloped by two
divisions of rebel infantry ; and after desperate fight
ing, in which the Seventh came in for a full share,
the brigade extricated itself by crossing the Potomac
near Sharpsburg, Md. In the last action a Major of
the Sixth Cavalry had the skin over his Adam's apple
broken by a bullet, just enough to bleed a little. It
suspended his respiration for an instant, so that he
dropped from his horse. But he immediately regained

68

SEVENTH REGIMENT

his feet, remounted his horse and rode away, making
use of language unbecoming an officer and a gen
tleman. On the 26th of August the Potomac was re-crossed,
and the column proceeded to the vicinity of Leetown,
and from there to
White Post, which was
reached the 27th. From
there we marched back
to Smithfield, where,
in an engagement with
the enemy on the 29th
of August, Lieut. Jos.
L. Meade received a
mortal wound, from
which he died Septem
ber 13, 1864. His death
deprived the command
and the country of a
good soldier, and of one
that possessed qualities
of mind and heart that
won him the esteem of
all his comrades. We
also lost in this action
two men killed and
twelve wounded. From Smithfield the command
moved to Summit Point, in which neighborhood it
remained, picketing, scouting, and skirmishing with
the enemy, until September 19, 1864.

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JOSEPH L. MEADE,
Second Lieutenant Company '
MICHIGAN VOLUNTEER CAVALRY.

09

The battle of Opequan, or Winchester, was fought
the 19th of September. At two o'clock on the morn
ing of that day we took up the march for the Opequan
river. Here an attempt to cross the ford by the
Twenty-fifth New York and Seventh Michigan cavalry
regiments, all under
command of Lieu-
tenant-Colonel
Brewer, was repulsed
by the rebel infantry
intrenched upon the
hills opposite. After
concentrating a hot
fire upon them by
dismounted men, the
First Michigan suc
ceeded in forcing a
passage and captur
ing the rifle pits,
with a number of
prisoners. About one mile from the crossing, in
the direction of Winchester, Breckinridge's com
mand was encountered strongly posted behind
earthworks. In a charge upon these, in which the
Seventh participated, severe loss was inflicted upon
the enemy, but we were not able to dislodge him.
The advance of our infantry caused Breckinridge
to abandon his position, and we moved towards
Stevenson's Depot to pass around his flank, when
Lomax's division of cavalry was met and put to flight.

LIEUTENANT-OOLONEL MELVIN BREWER.

70 SEVENTH REGIMENT
Moving on over an open country, where the forces
of both contending armies were exposed to view
in one grand panorama, the divisions of Lomax and
Fitzhugh Lee were discovered massed in an open
pine wood on the Martinsburg pike, about tliree miles
from Winchester. From the woods they made a for
midable charge, driving back our line of skirmishers,
but Custer's Michiganders dashed upon them with the.
sabre, routed them, and captured many prisoners.
Dislodging the rebel cavalry from the woods, it struck
out in full retreat for the heights west of Winchester,
and the chase was on. A stand was made about three-
quarters of a mile from the woods, but a sabre charge
again put them on the run and they did not stop again
until safe behind their infantry lines. The pursuit
was continued to within a few hundred yards of the
enemy's infantry, when Custer, awaiting the moment
when the advance of our infantry on their right and
centre would force their left to change position^
swooped down upon them with the sabre, capturing
over seven hundred prisoners, seven battle-flags, with
two caissons, and a large quantity of arms. The
enemy fled precipitately, but night put a stop to fur_
ther pursuit. We bivouacked on the Valley pike
three miles from the battlefield.
In the final charge fell Lieutenant-Colonel Melvin
Brewer, commanding the regiment. In his official re
port General Custer says of him : " He fell farthest in
advance of those that on that day surrendered their
lives in their country's cause. Possessed of ability

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71

qualifying him for much higher positions than those
he filled, he was invariably selected to command expe
ditions involving danger and requiring experience,
daring and sagacity. Known and respected by all his
brother officers, his memory will always be cherished
by every member of his command, and of him all will
say, he was a
soldier sansjyeur
et sans re-
proche." Good
words and true,
as we all can
testify. Captain Linus
F. Warner is
mentioned in
General Custer's
report for con
spicuous gallan
try. The casual
ties of the Sev
enth were four
killed and nine
teen wounded.
Before day, on the morning of the 20th, we were
following Early toward Strasburg, by way of the Val
ley pike, and found him in strong position at Fisher's
Hill, from which he was scared by Sheridan's manoeu-
vering. After this we were actively engaged beating
up the country here, there, and everywhere, without

MAJOR L. *. WARNER.

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meeting with anything noteworthy except an engage
ment at Luray on the 24th of September. At Port
Republic, on the 26th, Kershaw, with four brigades
of infantry, forced our division under Merritt to retire
toward Cross Keys, but we soon re-occupied the former
place, Kershaw withdrawing in his turn. There were
also engagements with the enemy at Port Republic on
the 27th and 28th
of September.
About this time
General Custer was
promoted to the
command of Wil
son's division, and
Colonel Stagg, of
the First Michigan,
was placed in com
mand of the brig
ade. The regiment
was commanded by
Major D. H. Dar
ling, after the fall of Colonel Brewer.
We remained in the vicinity of Port Republic — per
forming the duties pertaining to cavalry, in the face of
an active foe, with whom a little brush was had at
Mount Crawford, October 2d — until the 6th of Octo
ber, when we moved back to Strasburg. As we
leisurely proceeded, the whole Valley was laid waste,
the cavalry stretching across the country from the
Blue Ridge to the Alleghanies. On the bth, the ene-

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MICHIGAN VOLUNTEER CAVALRY. 73
my's cavalry having begun to harass our rear guard,
we turned upon him at Tom's Brook and completely
routed him, and then kept up the pursuit for twenty-
six miles until he was safe behind his infantry. All
his artillery, ambulances and wagons were captured,
together with three hundred prisoners. This engage
ment and pursuit was facetiously styled the " Wood
stock races." The 9th and 10th the backward march
was continued without molestation, and the 11th found
us on the north side of Cedar Creek. Here we re
mained until the 19th, picketing and reconnoitering
the country in all directions.
The night preceding the 19th of October, 1864,
the day of the battle of Cedar Creek, the Seventh
Michigan was picketing the front of the brigade on
the right of the Army of the Shenandoah, joining on
the left with the infantry pickets. Hearing some
shots at the outposts before daylight of the 19th, Major
Briggs proceeded thither, and found that some of the
sentries had discharged their pieces at what seemed to
be a column of troops moving in their front, but no
fire had been returned. Finding all quiet and no in
dication of the presence of a foe, the Major rode back
toward the reserve, when he was startled by a volley
of musketry and a rush of a large force to his left and
front, near the position occupied by the reserves,
which had changed position and were now beginning
to make a successful resistance to the enemy's advance,
in which, assistance was soon rendered by other
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the enemy, the Major returned to the outposts. An
infantry picket post to the left of the Seventh
Michigan had been captured by the enemy without
creating an alarm, and through the gap thus opened
the Rebel columns had poured, intervening between
the pickets and reserves of the Seventh. Some time
after daylight the picket force rejoined the rest of the
regiment by flanking the enemy, although not with
out considerable fighting. Our cavalry held its
position and repulsed the attacks of the Rebels, but
our infantry falling back upon the left of the cavalry
position, and the sound of battle augmenting in that
direction, the cavalry moved to the left and did good
service in checking the enemy's advance in the centre
and on the left. When Sheridan arrived from
Winchester he found the grand old Sixth Corps, a
part of Crook's command, and the cavalry which
formed the left of the line, in perfect order of battle,
having repulsed the enemy, and now were ready and
waiting for orders to move upon him. There was no
rout or disorder here; it was all some distance in the
rear. The sight of Sheridan evoked a tremendous
enthusiasm. Never did more resounding acclamations
issue from the throats of men. His presence was
equal to a re-inforcement of twenty thousand troops,
and the demonstration his coming aroused must have
impressed the foe that our lines had already received,
or were about to receive, strong accessions. No time
was given him to discover what was the meaning of
the outburst, for there was an immediate movement

MICHIGAN VOLUNTEER CAVALRY. 75
forward of the whole fine. In this advance the
Michigan brigade came in collision with Kershaw's
infantry, which was completely broken and dispersed,
one stand of colors and a large number of prisoners
being secured. The Seventh captured more prisoners
than it had troopers in its ranks. Darkness alone
prevented the total destruction of Early's army.
Colonel J. II . Kidd, of the Sixth Michigan, com
manded the brigade in this battle, General Custer
having been placed in command of the third division
on the evening of the 18th of October.
From the 20th of October to the 11th of November
nothing of especial note transpired. On the latter
date, however, Early appeared on the north side of
Cedar Creek, only to be driven back precipitately,
with a loss of artillery and prisoners.
The 14th and 15th of November we were engaged
with the division, in a reconnoissance to Mount Jackson,
where there was a little skirmish with the enemy, in
order to develop him and to obtain information. This
being secured, we returned to the vicinity of Win
chester. The 28th of November we marched with the
division into Londoun Valley, and laid waste the
country, after which we returned again to a point
near Winchester.
The 19th of December the regiment participated in
an expedition toward Charlottesville and Gordonsville,
to wreck the railroads in those localities. The enemy
being apprised of our movement interposed with a
large force of infantry and cavalry, which interfered

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with the prosecution of the expedition, so that it was
only partly successful. From day to day there was
considerable skirmishing, and quite a lively engage
ment at Liberty Mills, on the Rapidan, where Torbert
captured two pieces of artillery. It was bitterly cold
during all the time we were out, and our force rejoined
the army near Winchester on the 29th of December,
having suffered greatly by reason of the weather. We
then settled down into winter quarters.
On the 27th of February, 1865, General Merritt was
appointed Chief of Cavalry, and General Devin was
assigned to
the com
mand of the
FirstCavalry
Division,and
we set out
upon a cam-
p aign to
wipe out
Early's rebel
force in the
v valley, the
| regiment be
ing under

"'the com
mand of
Lieutenant-
C o 1 o n e 1
That night we bivouacked at Woodstock, and

COLONEL GEO. G. BRIGGS.

Briggi

MICHIGAN VOLUNTEER CAVALRY. 77
on the 28th reached Lacey's Springs. The 1st of March
Rosser was encountered at Mount Crawford and de
feated. Staunton was entered the morning of March
2d, whence the command moved toward Waynesboro,
where Early's force was met and, except a few officers
and men with Early himself, was captured after a
sharp engagement. Sixteen hundred prisoners, seven
teen battle flags, and eleven pieces of artillery were
secured. The morning of the 3d of March the column was
on the march for Charlottesville, which was entered
late in the afternoon. Some cavalry and three pieces
of artillery were captured. We remained here two
days resting, enjoying the hospitalities of the citizens,
and destroying the railroad in the direction of Lynch
burg. The brief rest of the command at Charlottesville
will always be remembered by those who took part in
this short but arduous campaign. For several days
we had been inarching over the rain-soaked roads of
red Virginia clay, churned into thin mortar by the
hoofs of many thousands of horses, who, at every step,
would splash sheets of the red mixture over each other
and over the riders until for once, at least, our uni
forms all corresponded, though not of the regulation
blue. Mud-covered and water-soaked, hungry and
sleepy, we reached the dry and solid pike leading into
the town. The sun, which had been hidden behind
the rainclouds for days, now shone out warm and
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78 SEVENTH REGIMENT
assigned us to quarters in and about the residences
formerly occupied by the officers and professors of the
University of Virginia. These residences were large
and commodious, and were situated on a dry and
sandy knoll, forming extensive grounds for picket
lines and tents. As tents had been generally left
behind, many of the men betook themselves to the
numerous, but now unoccupied, rooms once used by
the University students, each soldier having a room to
himself. His bearing for that day was so high-toned
and exclusive that an interview with him could hardly
be had without first apprising him by card of a desire
for communication.
The surrounding country had thus far escaped the
ravages of either army and was rich in forage and
food. Foraging parties soon returned with an
abundance of beef, hams, poultry, bread, cakes, butter,
honey, preserves, pickles, cheese, eggs, milk, etc., to
say nothing of the wet goods, such as applejack and
wine, and last, but not least, with generous quantities
of that sweet and deceptive beverage, methylin, the un
happy effects of which were felt by some for a day or
two after drinking. But
Pleasures are like poppies spread,
You seize the flower, the bloom is shed;
Or like the snowflake in the river —
A. moment white, then melts forever.
All too soon the bugles sounded "Boots and Saddles,"
with the " General " attached, and we again took up

MICHIGAN VOLUNTEER CAVALRY. 79
our line of march, not over but through the muddy
roads of the James River valley.
March 5th, 1865, we reached Scottsville on the
James river, the Seventh Michigan having the ad
vance. Here we captured a fleet of canal boats loaded
with supplies for Richmond. The fact that the Union
forces were near at hand caused the Rebel officer in
charge to call on the citizens of the town to carry away
all the flour and meat they could, so that we found
many houses filled with these commodities, which were
either destroyed by us or issued in smaller quantities
to the negroes and poor whites, who were in a starving
condition. Many queer experiences came from search
ing the houses for concealed goods. One healthy
woman was apparently at the point of death on a bed
made on top of seven barrels of flour. In tender
sympathy for the soldiers who had been so long soaked
in mud and water, General Sheridan ordered an issue
of a canteen of applejack to every man who brought
an order from his company commander. Filling these
orders consumed several barrels of applejack. Imme
diately after the issue we started on a march to
Lynchburg, but soon countermarched down the
river and canal toward Richmond, destroying the
canal and burning mills and storehouses in our way.
On the 10th we arrived at Columbia, where a rest was
taken for the day, awaiting the arrival of the train.
We moved to Louisa Court-House the 11th, and de
stroyed the Virginia Central Railroad to Frederick's
Hall; on the 12th, 13th and 14th of March we

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operated about Hanover Junction and Ashland,
wrecking the railroad, and reached Mount Carmel
Church on the
North Anna river.
On the 16th we
marched toward
White House
Landing, which
was reached the
18th, where sup
plies were await
ing us. Here we
remained until the
25th of March,
resting and re
fitting the com
mand. Thus was
ended our service
in the Shenandoah
Valley, and we
once again joined the Army of the Potomac.
On the 25th of March we proceeded to Harrison's
Landing and bivouacked ; moved to City Point on
the 26th, and from there to Hancock Station, where
we arrived the 27th. Early the morning of the 29th
the column marched over the Welden road toward
Ream's Station and spent the night marching in the
mud and rain in the vicinity of Dinwiddie Court-
House. Making a reconnoissance on the White Oak
road to Five Forks, March 30th, we found the enemy

JAMES B. LOOMIS,
Captain Company " M."

MICHIGAN VOLUNTEER CAVALRY. 81
in force. He attacked in superior numbers, forcing
back the Sixth Pennsylvania and Second United States
Cavalry regiments when the Seventh Michigan went
to the rescue. The report of Lieutenant-Colonel
Briggs tells how this was done :
" On the morning of March 30th, the Seventh Michi
gan, numbering less than three hundred men, after
marching all night in the rain on heavy roads, received
orders to move with promptness to the support of the
Sixth Pennsylvania and Second United States Cavalry,
holding a position on the extreme right of our line,
which were strongly pressed by a heavy force of the
enemy. The enemy was charging down upon the re
treating force confident of success. The Seventh,
formed in column of squadrons, sabres drawn, moved
gallantly forward in a countercharge. With shouts of
' Sheridan and Victory !' they dash into the fire of
death. A moment, and the shock of contending arms
and the shouts of contestants filled the air. A mo
ment, and the Rebel line wavered, then broke and fled
the field in a confused rout, leaving in our hands the
commanding officer of their brigade and a large num
ber of prisoners, the remainder fleeing for safety be
hind the fortifications, a distance of three miles, closely
followed by the Seventh. For the part the regiment
took in this action it received the compliments of the
commanding general."
Bivouac was made at night on the Five Forks road.
The 31st of March was enlivened by a sharp engage
ment at the intersection of the Dinwiddie and Five

SEVENTH REGIMENT

Forks road, from where we fell back to the Dinwiddie
Court-House and bivouacked. At break of day, April
1st, we were in the saddle pressing back Pickett's
infantry toward Five Forks. By two o'clock the
enemy was driven within his entrenchments at Five
Forks, and then began the battle of that name, in the
final charge of which the Seventh had a prominent
place, capturing many prisoners and pursuing the
enemy until after darkness set in. We bivouacked
upon the battlefield.
In the early morning of April 2d, the regiment was
on the march, pushing the rebel cavalry towards
Scott's Corners, picking up prisoners all the time, and
marching most of the night. The pursuit did not lag
upon the 3d, when there fell into our hands a large
number of prisoners and wagons and five pieces of
artillery. The 4th of April the march was taken up
to Amelia Court-House and Jettersville, skirmishing
with the enemy, and making captures on the way.
We remained in this vicinity until the 5th, engaged
in corraling Lee's army. On the 6th of April we pro
ceeded toward Rice's Station, and our brigade secured
possession of a crossroad between Deatonsville and
Appomattox, interposing between the head of Gordon's
and rear of Ewell's Rebel infantry columns, and com
pletely isolating Ewell's corps. This brought on the
battle of Sailor's Creek, one of the severest actions of
the war, which resulted in the capture of Ewell's
whole corps, with all its artillery and munitions of
war. The part contributed by the Michigan cavalry

MICHIGAN VOLUNTEER CAVALRY.

83

brigade to this result was not secondary to that of any
other troops engaged. This was the mortal blow
previous to the sur
render, although a
show of resistance
was kept up for a
few days longer.
Before daybreak,
on the 7th of April,
we were on the
march to Prince
Edward Court-
House, bivouacking
at Buffalo Creek.
We marched on
the 8th to Prospect
Station and from
thence toward Ap
pomattox Depot,
where we had a spirited brush with the rebels,
capturing much property and a lot of munitions of
war. We now had the enemy completely corraled,
and he was kept from feeling that he was in any way
neglected, by means of all day and all night skirmish
ing. After standing "to horse" all night in open
order of column by squadrons, about four o'clock on
the morning of the 9th, in the gray of dawn, a line of
the enemy's skirmishers was discovered advancing.
The Seventh was at once deployed and soon hotly en
gaged. Under the steady stream of lead poured out

E. R. HAVENS,
First Lieutenant Company "A.*

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by our Spencer carbines the advance of the enemy
was checked, held for a time, and then forced slowly
back. Our battery took a position upon a rise of
ground, and for a while suffered severely from the
rebel sharpshooters who were posted in trees. The
First Michigan had three color-bearers shot in this
engagement. About nine o'clock a.m. we were re
lieved by the
colored infantry
of the Twenty-
fourth Corps,
and being
ordered to the
right we moved
off in columns
of " fours " at
the trot, through
open woods. As
we emerged
from the woods
into a clearing,
Lee's whole
army, deployed
for action, came
into view and our bugles were sounding the charge.
Just at this juncture several horsemen emerged
from the woods of the enemy's lines, the leader waving
a white signal of truce. Our columns were stayed
and Colonel Geo. G. Briggs, of the Seventh Michigan
Cavalry, galloped out to meet them. In answer to

CAPTAIN ROLLA GLOVER.

MICHIGAN VOLUNTEER CAVALRY.

85

Colonel Briggs' demand as to their mission, it was
replied that they bore proposals for a suspension of
hostilities and wished to communicate with the General
commanding. Colonel Briggs conducted them through
an advanced line of his regiment, under command
of Captain William H. Fisher, to General Custer,
to whom they
proceeded at a
rapid pace.
General Custer
said that he had
no authority to
suspend hostili
ties, but if some
assurance could
be given by those
in authority on
the other side
that an armistice
was desired pre
liminary to a
surrender, and
that the truce
was not merely
stay the charge

WM. H. FISHEU,
Captain Company "A.'

a ruse to gain time, he would
until the assurance could be
given, and until General Sheridan, who was in
immediate command, had been communicated with.
The truce party then returned back into the rebel
lines, accompanied by Colonel Briggs, when the
requisite assurance having been given by Generals

SEVENTH REGIMENT

Longstreet and Gordon, a suspension of hostilities
followed. The armistice, however, was not respected by Gary's
South Carolina Cavalry, which fired upon us ; where
upon we put a quietus upon them in short order
by a charge,
many of them
finding "the last
ditch " they pro
fessed to be seek
ing, while the
greater part ran
away to a safe
place. This was
the last action of
the rebellion in
connection with
Lee's army, and
the formal sur
render took
place the same

MAJOR ROBERT SPROHL.

day.

The morning of April 10th found the cavalry on
the march to Petersburg, in which vicinity we re
mained until the 24th of April, when we set
out for North Carolina to effect a junction with
General Sherman, but our columns were arrested
at South Boston, on the Dan river on the 28th,
by the news of Johnston's surrender. From
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MICHIGAN VOLUNTEER CAVALRY. 87
and participated in the Grand Review on the 23d of
May, 1865.
After a short stay in Washington the brigade was
ordered to Fort Leavenworth, Kansas, proceeding by
the Baltimore and Ohio railroad to Wheeling, and
thence by the Ohio and Mississippi and Missouri rivers
to the point of destination. Thence the command
marched across the plains to the Rocky Mountains to
quell the Indian disturbances prevalent in that wide
section. September 17, 1865, there was a muster-out
of men and officers of the First, Fifth and Sixth regi
ments, whose terms had expired, and the remainder,
with those of the Seventh, whose term of service did
not expire before February, 1866, were consolidated
into the First Michigan Veteran Cavalry. The re
mainder, whose terms expired previously to February
1, 1866, continued under command of Colonel Briggs
as the Seventh Michigan Cavalry until December 15,
1865, when they were mustered out. The First Mich
igan Veteran Cavalry was retained in service in Utah
until March 10, 1866, and not until that date did the
military service of a part of the Seventh cease, although
the greater number of men and officers were mustered
out December 15, 1865. In the West the regiment
suffered severely from the hardships of desert and
mountain marches in the dead of winter and from the
vicissitudes of Indian warfare.

OFFICEES' EEGISTEE.

Armstrong, Geo. A., Eaton Rapids, Captain, October 15,
1863. Captain and Assistant Quarter-Master, United States
Volunteers, May 18, 1864. Mustered out March 13, 1866, and
honorably discharged.
Anthony, Henry L., Battle Creek. Enlisted September 8,
1863. Second Lieutenant, May 19, 1864. Not mustered.
Honorably discharged, December 15, 1865.
Bentley, James W., Hastings. Enlisted August 13, 1861,
as Private, New York Lincoln Cavalry. First Lieutenant
and Commissary, October 15, 1862. Mustered out December
15, 1865, and honorably discharged.
Birney, James G-., Bay City. Second Lieutenant, October 15,
1863. Wounded and captured at Gettysburg, Pa , July 3,
1863. Escaped same day. Captain, March 18, 1864. Trans
ferred to First Michigan Veteran Cavalry November 17, 1865.
Mustered out March 10, 1866, and honorably discharged.
Second Lieutenant, Ninth United States Cavalry, July 38,
1866. Brevet First Lieutenant and Captain, March 3, 1867,
"for gallant and meritorious service at the battle of Gettys
burg, Pa." First Lieutenant, April 14, 1867. Died January
16, 1870.
Boughton, James C, St. Joseph. Second Lieutenant, Octo
ber 15, 1863. Wounded in action at Cedar Creek, Va., Octo
ber 19, 1864. Resigned June 36, 1865, and honorably dis
charged.
Bowles, Vincent H.., Detroit. Enlisled April 13,1863, Ser
geant Company L, Second Lieutent, May 34, 1865. Mustered
out December 15, 1865, and honorably dischared.
Brewer, Melvin, Almont. Captain First Cavalry, August 33,
1861. Major, January 1, 1863. Lieutenant-Colonel Seventh
Cavalry, June 6, 1864. Not mustered as Lieutenant-Colonel.

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Wounded in action at Trevillian Station, Va. , June 11, 1864.
Died, September 35, 1864, of wounds received in action at
Winchester, Va., September 19, 1864.
Briggs, George G., Battle Creek. First Lieutenant, October
15, 1863. Adjutant, July 1, 1863. Taken prisoner in action
at Buckland's Mills, Va., October 19, 1863. Escaped two
days afterward by running the Rebel guard. Captain, March
33, 1864. Major, May 19, 1864. Lieutenant-Colonel, October
13, 1864. Colonel, May 36, 1865. Mustered out December 15,
1865, and honorably discharged.
Buck, Andrew N. Enlisted November 33, 1863, as Sergeant
Company F. Second Lieutenant May 34, 1865. First
Lieutenant to rank from May 19, 1864, but not mustered.
Transferred to First Michigan Veteran Cavalry, November
17, 1865. Mustered out March 10, 1866, and honorably
discharged.
Canfleld, Henry, Chelsea. Enlisted November 5, 1873. Ser
geant Company E, Second Lieutenant, July 10, 1864. First
Lieutenant, May 34, 1865. Transferred to First Michigan
Veteran Cavalry, November 17, 1865. Died at Camp Doug
lass, Utah, March 11, 1866.
Carll, Samuel B., Port Huron. Enlisted September 3, 1863,
as Farrier Company K., Second Michigan Cavalry, Second
Lieutenant Seventh Michigan Cavalry, June 11, 1863.
Wounded and taken prisoner near Richmond, Va., March 1,
1864. Exchanged, June, 1864. Resigned, May 39, 1865, and
honorably discharged.
Carpenter, James L., Scipio. First Lieutenant, October 15,
1863. Wounded severely and captured at Gettysburg, Pa.,
July 3, 1863. Escaped same day. Captain, July 8, 1863.
Major, May 36, 1865. Transferred to First Michigan Veteran
Cavalry, November 17, 1865, and mustered as Major to date
from December 4, 1865, by special direction of the Secretary
of War, to amend record. On detached service at Denver,
Col., as A. A. A. G., with General Upton, from November,
1865, to the muster out.

MICHIGAN VOLUNTEER CAVALRY. 91
Carpenter, Wm. H., Tecumseh. Enlisted February 18, 1863.
Sergeant Company K, Second Lieutenant, May 24, 1865. Mus
tered out December 15, 1865, and honorably discharged.
Carson, Lewis, East Saginaw. Enlisted August 26, 1863.
Sergeant Company G, First Lieutenant, October 14, 18C3.
Resigned June 20, 1865, and honorably discharged.
Carver Lucius, Boston, Mass. Enlisted November, 23,1862.
Sergeant Major  , Second Lieutenant, March 22, 1864.
Killed in action at Front Royal, Va., August 16, 1864.
Clark, Franklin B., Pontiac. Enlisted November 24, 1862.
Sergeant Major  , Second Lieutenant, May 24, 1865.
First Lieutenant and Adjutant, December 12, 1865. Not mus
tered as First Lieutenant. Killed by accidental discharge of
his own pistol in spring of 1866, en route to Fort Leavenworth,
Kan. , with a detachment for muster-out.
Clarke, John A., Stockbridge. First Lieutenant, October 15,
1863. Captain, August 4, 1864. Taken prisoner near Rich
mond, Va., March 1, 1864. Escaped November 34, 1864.
Mustered out December 15, 1865, and honorably discharged.
Clipperton, Wm. H., East Saginaw. Captain, June 11,
1863. Transferred to First Michigan Veteran Cavalry, No
vember, 1865. Mustered out March 10, 1866, and honorably
discharged.
Cooke, Edwin D., Niles. Enlisted September 15, 1862. Ser
geant Company A, Second Lieutenant, May 24, 1865. Not
mustered. Honorably discharged August 16, 1865.
Crocker, Erastus B., BattleCreek. Enlisted September 8,
1862. Sergeant Company A, Second Lieutenant, October 12,
1864. First Lieutenant, May 24, 1865. Captain, May 26,
1865. Not mustered as Captain. Mustered out December 15,
1865, and honorably discharged.
Darling, Daniel H., East Saginaw. Captain, October 15,
1862. Major, March 22, 1864. Lieutenant-Colonel, May 26,
1865. Not mustered as Lieutenant-Colonel. Mustered out
December 15, 1865, and honorably discharged.

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De Graff, Henry, Adrian. Enlisted December 4, 1862. Com
missary Sergeant, Second Lieutenant, May 26, 1865. Not
mustered. Honorably discharged November 7, 1865.
Dodge, Winchester T., Orange. Second Lieutenant, Octo
ber 15, 1862. Resigned February 23, 1864, and honorably
discharged.
Doty, Duane, Ann Arbor. First Lieutenant and Adjutant,
October 15, 1863. Resigned July 36, 1863, and honorably dis
charged.
Douglass, Richard, Ross. Captain, October 15, 1862. Hon
orably discharged April 2, 1864.
Dunnett, Daniel W., Grand Rapids. Enlisted February 21,
1863. Sergeant Company D, Second Lieutenant March 28,
1864. Captain, July 31, 1864. Transferred to First Michigan
Veteran Cavalry, November 17, 1865. Mustered out March
10, 1865, and honorably discharged.
Ellis, Myron H., Ypsilanti. Enlisted August 14, 1862, as
Sergeant Fifth Michigan Cavalry, First Lieutenant Seventh
Cavalry, October 15, 18r>2. Captain, June 6, 1863. Resigned
June 30, 1863, and honorably discharged.
Ferris, George, Charlotte. Enlisted September 9, 1862. Ser
geant Company D, Second Lieutenant, February 38, 1865.
First Lieutenant, May 34, 1865. Not mustered as First Lieu
tenant. Transferred to First Michigan Veteran Cavalry, No
vember 17, 1865. Mustered out March 10, 1866, and honor
ably discharged.
Fisher, William H., Detroit. Enlisted September 11, 1862.
Sergeant Company E, First Lieutenant, August 1, 1863.
Captain, October 12, 1864. Mustered out December 15, 1865,
and honorably discharged.
Glover, Rolla, Buena Vista. Enlisted August 29, 1862. Ser
geant Company C, First Lieutenant, June 13, 1863. Captain,
January 27, 1865. Transferred to First Michigan Veteran
Cavalry, November 17, 1865. Mustered out March 10, 1866.
Granger, Henry W., Grand Rapids. First Lieutenant New

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York Lincoln Cavalry, August 14, 1861. Major Seventh
Michigan Cavalry, December 20, 1862. Killed in action at
Yellow Tavern, Va., May 11, 1864.
Gray, Elliott, Tecumseh. First Lieutenant, October 15, 1862,
Wounded in action at Williamsport, Md , July 8, 1863. Re
signed February 38, 1865, and honorably discharged.
Gregg, Riley A., St. Joseph. Enlisted August 30, 1863. Ser
geant Company B, Second Lieutenant, October 23, 1864.
Mustered out November 17, 1865, and honorably discharged.
Griffith, Caleb, Lowell. Enlisted, August 30, 1862. Sergeant
Company C, Second Lieutenant First Michigan or One Hun
dred and Second United States Infantry, January 20,
1864. First Lieutenant, January 20, 1865. Resigned August 7,
1865, on account of wounds received in action at Gettysburg,
Pa., and honorably discharged.
Hamlin, John H., Eaton Rapids. Enlisted August 12, 1861,
as Sergeant Company K, New York Lincoln Cavalry, First
Lieutenant Seventh Michigan Cavalry, July 8, 1863. Wounded
in action July 10, 1863. Captain, May 19. 1864. Mustered
out December 15, 1865, and honorably discharged.
Harrington, Wm. E., Tecumseh. Second Lieutenant, Octo
ber 15, 1862. Resigned April 7, 1864, and honorably dis
charged.
Hastings, William, Adrian. Enlisted December 1, 1862.
Sergeant Company I, Second Lieutenant, February 28, 1865.
Not mustered. Honorably discharged December 15, 1865.
Havens Edwin R., Buchanan. Enlisted September 12, 1862.
Sergeant Company A, Second Lieutenant, May 24, 1865. First
Lieutenant, to rank from February 27, 1865, but not mustered.
Mustered out December 15, 1865, and honorably discharged.
Henry, Munson P., Tecumseh. Enlisted September 30, 1862.
Sergeant Company B, Second Lieutenant, February 24, 1863.
Honorably discharged January 8, 1864.
Hill, George W., Detroit. Second Lieutenant, December 3,
1862. Taken prisoner in action at Yellow Tavern, Va., May

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11, 1864. Exchanged March 1, 1865. First Lieutenant, May
24, 1865. Transferred to First Michigan Veteran Cavalry,
November 17, 1865. Mustered out March 10, 1866, and honor
ably discharged.
Holmes, Roswell H., Detroit Second Lieutenant, October
15, 1863. Taken prisoner at Buckland's Mills, Va. , October
19, 1863. Escaped two days after by running Rebel guard.
Resigned March 38, 1864, and honorably discharged.
Holton, Charles M., Battle Creek. Enlisted September 4,
1863. Sergeant Company A. Second Lieutenant March 22,
1864. First Lieutenant May 24, 1865. Resigned June 23,
1865, and honorably discharged.
Huston, John S., Lyons. Major October 14, 1862. Honor
ably discharged February 13, 1864.
Ingersoll, Hiram J., Scipio. Second Lieutenant October 15,
1862 First Lieutenant February 28, 1863. Mustered out
December 15, 1865, and honorably discharged.
Isham, Asa B., Detroit. Enlisted November 18, 1862. Ser
geant Company I., and Regimental Marker. Severely
wounded in action near Warrenton Junction, Va., May 14,
1863. First Lieutenant March 22, 1864. Slightly wounded,
and taken prisoner in action at Yellow Tavern, Va. , May 11,
1864. Exchanged December 11, 1864. Honorably discharged
for disability arising from wounds received in action April
11, 1865.
Knight, Edwin, Eaton Rapids. Enlisted August 12, 1861.
Bugler New York Lincoln Cavalry. Second Lieutenant
Seventh Michigan Cavalry, June 6, 1863. Honorably dis
charged October 23, 1864.
Litchfield, Allyn C, Blendon. Captain Fifth Cavalry
August 14, 1862. Lieutenant-Colonel Seventh Cavalry, No
vember 14, 1862. Taken prisoner March 1, 1864, on the Kil
patrick raid, and placed in solitary confinement in Richmond.
Exchanged February 1865. Colonel March 1, 1864, but not
mustered. Brevet Brigadier General United States Volun-

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teers March 3, 1865, " for gallant and meritorious service."
Mustered out as Lieutenant-Colonel May 21, 1865, mustered
as Colonel May 32, 1865, and mustered out as Colonel May
26, 1865.
Littlefleld, Daniel W., Grand Rapids. Enlisted June 10,
1861. Corporal Company A, Third Infantry. Second Lieu
tenant Seventh Cavalry October 29, 1862. First Lieutenant
June 6, 1863. Died of disease in Washington, D. O, Decem
ber 6, 1863.
Loomis, James B., Battle Creek. Enlisted September 4,
1862. S rgeant Major, First Lieutenant August 1, 1863.
Captain May 24, 1865. Mustered out December 15, 1865, and
honorably discharged.
Lucas, Isaac W., Grand Rapids. Enlisted February 19,
1863. Sergeant Company K, Second Lieutenant March 22,
1864, but not mustered. Honorably discharged June 16, 1865.
Lyon, Charles, Grand Rapids. Supernumerary Second Lieu
tenant October 15, 1862. Mustered out April, 1863. Enlisted
as private January 14, 1864. Second Lieutenant March 22,
1864. First Lieutenant May 24, 1865. Mustered out Decem
ber 15, 1865, and honorably discharged.
Lyon, Farnham, Grand Rapids. First Lieutenant and
Quartermaster October 27, 1862. Captain and Assistant
Quartermaster United States Volunteers May 18, 1864. Brevet
Major United States Volunteers March 13, 1865, " for faithful
and meritorious service during the war." Mustered out
March 20, 1866, and honorably discharged.
Mann, William D., Detroit. Captain First Cavalry August
23, 1861. Lieutenant-Colonel Fifth Cavalry August 14, 1863.
Colonel Seventh Cavalry November 1, 1863. Resigned March
1, 1864, and honorably discharged.
Mann, Stephen B., Palmyra. First Lieutenant Fifth Cav
alry August 14, 1863. Captain Seventh Cavalry October 15,
1863. Honorably discharged for disability July 8, 1863.
Martin, George H., Grand Rapids. Enlisted January 12,
1863. Sergeant Company I, .Second Lieutenant October 1,

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1863. Second Lieutenant Fourteenth Battery Light Artillery
February 11, 1864. Resigned February 20, 1865, and honor
ably discharged.
Masten, John B., Tecumseh. Enlisted December 9, 1862.
Sergeant Company I, Second Lieutenant August 16, 1864.
First Lieutenant May 24, 1865. Transferred to First Michi
gan Veteran Cavalry November 17, 1865. Mustered out
March 10, 1866, and honorably discharged.
MeCormick, George W., Kalamo. Enlisted October 27,
1862. Sergeant Company D, Second Lieutenant October 34,
1864. First Lieutenant June 13, 1863. Captain May 34, 1865.
Mustered out December 15, 1865, and honorably discharged.
MeNaughton, Daniel, Plainfield. Enlisted August 28, 1862.
Quartermaster-Sergeant, First Lieutenant and Quartermaster
May 18, 1864. Mustered out December 15, 1865, and honora
bly discharged.
Mead, Joseph L., East Saginaw. First Lieutenant June 11,
1863. Died September 13, 1864, of wounds received in
action August 29, 1864.
Moore, Heman N., Grand Rapids. Second Lieutenant
Eighth Infantry April 21, 1862. First Lieutenant September
1, 1862. Wounded in action at Antietam, Md., September
17, 1862. Captain Seventh Cavalry November 26, 1862. Re
signed June 30, 1865, and honorably discharged.
Nash, Charles P., Muskegon. Chaplain September 6, 1863.
Mustered out and honorably discharged December 15, 1865.
Nevius, Henry M., Grand Rapids. Supernumerary Second
Lieutenant January 1, 1863. Mustered out April, 1863.
Newcombe, George K., Owosso. Captain Ninth Infantry
October 12, 1861. Major Seventh Cavalry December 10, 1862.
Wounded in action at Gettysburg, Pa., July 3, 1863. Re
signed October 13, 1863, and honorably discharged.
Newman, Joseph J., Owosso. First Lieutenant October 15,
1862. Captain July 31, 1864. Honorably discharged for dis
ability February 27, 1865.

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Nichols, Franklin P., Ionia. Second Lieutenant October
15, 1862. Resigned July 13, 1864, and honorably discharged.
Pratt, Charles O., Niles. Enlisted September 4, 1862. Ser
geant Company A, First Lieutenant and Adjutant March 28,
1864. Captain December 12, 1865, but not mustered. Mus
tered out December 15, 1865, and honorably discharged.
Richards, George R., Ann Arbor. Assistant Surgeon Octo
ber 15, 1862. Transferred to First Michigan Veteran Cavalry
November 17, 1865. Mustered out March 10, 1866, and honor
ably discharged.
Richards, Hugh, Tecumseh. Captain October 15, 1862. Re
signed June 1, 1863, and honorably discharged.
Sergeant, David, Kalamazoo. First Lieutenant October 15,
1862. Captain April 2, 1864. Mustered out December 15,
1865, and hononorably discharged.
Sessions, John Q. A., Eaton. First Lieutenant, October 15,
1862. Mustered out November 3, 1865, and honorably dis
charged.
Sherman, Adna, Lamont. Assistant Surgeon October 15,
1862. Resigned April 29, 1863, and honorably discharged.
Smith, George E., St. Joseph. Enlisted August 29, 1862.
Sergeant Company B, First Lieutenant May 24, 1865. Mus
tered out December 15, 1865, and honorably discharged.
Smith, Harmon, Prairieville. Enlisted December 30, 1862.
Sergeant Company F, Second Lieutenant December 13, 1865,
but not mustered. Mustered out December 15, 1865, and
honorably discharged.
Sproul, Robert, Birch Run. First Lieutenant October 12,
1862. Captain June 13, 1863. Wounded in action at Kelly's
Ford, Va., September 16, 1863. Major May 34, 1865. Trans
ferred to First Michigan Veteran Cavalry November 17, 1865.
Mustered out March 10, 1866, and honorably discharged.
Stoneburner, George W., Grand Rapids. Supernumerary
Second Lieutenant October 15, 1862. Resigned April 11,
1863.

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Thomas, Henry F., Eaton Rapids. Enlisted August 7, 1862.
Sergeant Co. D, Second Lieutenant July 31, 1864, but not
mustered. Mustered out December 15, 1865, and honorably
discharged.
Thompson, Bradley M., East Saginaw. Captain October
15, 1862. Resigned July 31, 1864. Major and Paymaster
United States Volunteers July 2, 1864. Brevet Lieutenant-
Colonel United States Volunteers March 13, 1865, "for gal
lant and meritorious service during the war." Mustered out
December 1, 1865, and honorably discharged.
Tubbs, Butler S., FentonviUe. Enlisted August 24, 1862.
Sergeant Co. G, Second Lieutenant March 24, 1865. First
Lieutenant May 26, 1865, but not mustered. Transferred to
First Michigan Veteran Cavalry November 17, 1865. Mus
tered out March 10, 1866, and honorably discharged.
Upjohn, William, Hastings. Surgeon November 1, 1863.
Mustered out December 15, 1865, and honorably discharged.
Walker, Alexander, Niles. Captain October 15, 1862.
Wounded in action at Gettysburg, Pa., July 3, 1863. Major
February 14, 1864. Honorably discharged for disability
November 28, 1864.
Warner, Linus F., Royalton. Captain October 15, 1862.
Major October 12, 1864. Transferred to First Michigan Vet
eran Cavalry November 17, 1865. Mustered out March 27,
1866, and honorably discharged.
Willetts, Wellington, Detroit. Captain October 15, 1862.
Taken prisoner at Hagerstown, Md., July 8, 1863. Honor
ably discharged for disability May 3, 1865.
SUMMARY.
Whole number of officers  82
Killed and died of wounds received in action  5
Died of disease  27
Officers wounded  13
Total casualities  20

41.

ROLL OF HONOR."

CONTAINING THE NAMES OP SOLDIERS OF THE SEVENTH
MICHIGAN CAVALRY, WHO LOST THEIR LIVES IN BATTLE.
BY DISEASE AND IN REBEL PRISONS DURING
THE WAR OF THE REBELLION.
Compiled by J. Q. A. SESSIONS, op Ann Aebor, Mich.,
Late First Lieutenant Company " D " and Secretary of the Seventh
Michigan Cavalry Association.
From the records in the Adjutant-GeneraVs Office at Lansing and the
u Rolls of Honor " published by the Government, from correspond
ence with Superintendents of National Cemeteries in
Virginia, and from information obtained from
survivors of the Regiment.

COMPANY A.

Adams, Oscae H., Calhoun Co. Killed in battle at Trevilian
Station, June 11, 1864.
Alexandee, Samuel. Killed in battle at Buckland Mills, Va.,
Oct. 19, 1863.

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Beadlet, Randall P., Calhoun Co. Died at Washington,
April 10, 1863.
Bkickell, Edward J., Berrien Co. Wounded at Gettysburg,
July 3, 1863 : died in hospital at Baltimore, Aug. 10, 1863.
Beownell, Hoeace. Killed at Gettysburg, July 3, 1863.
Clark, Edgae A., Barry Co. Died at Little Blue, Nebraska,
July 5, 1865.
Collins, Joseph. Died at Washington, Feb. 5, 1864, or
Alexandria, Jan. 12, 1864.
Chappell, Chester C Died of starvation in Rebel prison,
May 3, 1864.
Dumpheet, Edwin, Calhoun Co. Wounded at Winchester,
Sept. 19, 1864 ; died Sept. 20, 1864, at Baltimore, Md.
Fulton, David, Berrien Co. Died at St. Louis, Mo., June 15,
1865.
Heinok, John. Killed at Gettysburg, Pa., July 3, 1863.
Knapp, Chas. C, St. Joseph Co. Died in prison at Salisbury,
S. C, Feb. 15, 1865.
Luke, J. W , Calhoun Co. Killed in battle at Hawes Shop,
Va , May 28, 1864
Lowry, Alexander, Berrien Co. Died at Eddensburg, O.,
Feb. 14, 1863.
Lang, Edwaed S Taken prisoner at battle of Buckland
Mills, Oct. 19, 1863; died of disease at Annapolis, June 19,
1864.
Lingo, Daniel. Died while prisoner at Richmond, Va., Feb.
8, 1864.
Matohett, Noel, Berrien Co. Killed in battle at Trevilian
Station, Va., June 11, 1864.
Maroott, Oliver, Berrien Co. Died at Fort Leavenworth,
Kans. , Oct. 10, 1865.
Millman, Samuel. Transferred to Invalid Corps ; died at
Alexandria, Va., 1863.
O Beien, Wm. H. Wounded in battle, May 11, 1864, at Yellow
Tavern; died at Andersonville, Sept. 19, 1864; number on
tombstone at National Cemetery at Andersonville, 8,511.
Parks, Allen C. Killed in battle at Cedar Creek, Oct. 19, 1864.

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Park, John. Killed at Gettysburg, Pa., July 3, 1863.
Pieroe, Sidney S., Calhoun Co. Died at Richmond, Va., Feb.
8, 1864.
Shafee, Chas. F , Kalamazoo Co. Killed in battle at Win
chester, Va., Sept. 19, 1864.
Speingee, Joseph, Calhoun Co. Died at Andersonville, Oct.
8, 1864.
Sayees, Nathan S. Died at St. Louis, Mo., June 9, 1865.
Steong, Geo. W. Died in prison at Charleston, S. C, Oct.
27, 1864.
Stanton, Chas. W., Muskegon Co. Died at Cumberland, Md.,
June 6, 1865.
Smith, Alonzo D., Ottawa Co. Died at Jefferson Barracks,
Mo., June 2, 1865.
Sheowder, Michael, Berrien Co. Died at Alexandria, Va.,
Aug. 3, 1863.
Tayloe, Ezekiel, Cass Co. Died at Washington, Dec. 28,
1864
Trumble, James, Berrien Co. Died at Convalescent Camp,
Va., July 26, 1863.
Walter, Nelson, Cass Co. Killed at Gettysburg, Pa., July 3,
1863 ; buried at National Cemetery, Grave 5, Section F.
Walling, Pitts. Died of Smallpox at Baltimore, Md., June,
1864.
Wiloox, Chas. Killed at Gettysburg, Pa., July 3, 1863.
Worthen, Geoege A. Killed at Gettysburg, Pa. , July 3, 1863.
COMPANY B.
Austin, Stephen, Van Buren Co. Prisoner at Charleston,
Dec. 17, 1864; died on board Transport on return from
Charleston to Annapolis.
Bakee, George, Lenawee Co. Killed by Indians at Little
Laramie, Wjo., Aug. 5, 1865.
Bridleman, Geoege, Berrien Co. Died of Consumption at
Grand Rapids, Oct. 19, 1862.
Fisher, Matthias, Lenawee Co. Killed in action at Berryville,
Va., Sept. 3, 1864.

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Hill, Albert W., Washtenaw Co. Died of Consumption at
Fairfax, Va., March 29, 1863.
Hager, John S., Berrien Co. Wounded in battle of Winches
ter, Sept. 19, 1864; died Sept. 21, 1864.
Hioks, Hamilton, Berrien Co. Taken prisoner and died at
Richmond, March 1, 1864.
Hartsell, George. Taken prisoner at Bealeton, Va., Oct. 15.
1863; died at Andersonville, April 2, 1864; number on
tombstone at National Cemetery at Andersonville, 409.
Raskins, James, Berrien Co. Wounded in battle April 3, 1865 ;
died in held hospital, April 7, 1865.
Howard, Andrew, Lenawee Co. Died at Winchester, Va.,,
Sept. 20, 1864.
Joedon, James N, Lenawee Co. Died at Fairfax Court-House,.
Va., May 15, 1863.
Jakeway, Ebenezer, Berrien Co. Taken prisoner in action at
Bealton, Va., Oct. 15, 1863 ; died at Andersonville, July 18,
1864.
Keller, Heney H, Berrien Co. Died at Armory Square Hos
pital, Washington, June 25, 1864, of wounds received at
Todd's Tavern, Va., May 7, 1864.
Laird, William, Lenawee Co. Wounded in battle and died
near Cedar Creek, Va., Oct. 19, 1864.
Larrue, Hiram J., Lenawee Co. Killed in action at Grove
Church, Va., March 25, 1864.
Long, Edward, Berrien Co. Killed in battle at Winchester,,
Sept. 19, 1864.
MoCaughn, Wm., Lenawee Co. Taken prisoner and died at
Andersonville Prison, Dec. 9, 1864.
Ninoy, Henry, Mason Co. Died at Washington, D. C, May 5V
1865.
Perkins, Myron H. , Lenawee Co. Wounded in battle May 28 ;
died near Cold Harbor in hospital, May 30, 1864.
Russel, Jason, Van Buren Co. Died a prisoner at Richmond,.
Va., Sept. 14, 1863.
Sappord, Josiah, Berrien Co. Died of fever at Grand Rapids,.
Feb. 15, 1863.

MICHIGAN VOLUNTEER CAVALRY. 103
Seymour, Wilson B., Kent Co. Died at Fort Halleck, Wyo.,
Sept. 3, 1865.
Stearns, Wm. A., Lenawee Co. Killed in battle at Cold Harbor,
June 1, 1864.
Van Pelt, Francis H, Berrien Co. Died of Measles at Aquia
Creek, April 24, 1863.
Whittaker, Joseph F., Berrien Co. Taken prisoner at Beale-
ton, Va.; died at Andersonville, April 2, 1864.
COMPANY C.
Barnhardt, Martin, Saginaw Co. Wounded during Kilpat
rick's Raid to Richmond and taken prisoner and exchanged ;
died of disease at Baltimore, April 14, 1864.
Case, Silas D., Tuscola Co. Taken prisoner in battle at
Buckland Mills, Va., Oct. 19, 1863; died at Richmond,
March 4, 1864.
Clago, Stephen, Bay Co. Taken prisoner in battle at Trevilian
Station, Va., June 11, 1864; died at Andersonville, July 6,
1864.
Church, Benjamin, Saginaw Co. Killed at Gettysburg, July
3, 1863.
Cook, Elliot A., Tuscola Co. Killed in action at Robinson
River. Oct. 8, 1863.
Diehl, Henry, St. Clair Co. Wounded at Salem Church, Va.;
died at Naval School Hospital at Annapolis, Oct. 11, 1864.
Fredenburg, Benj. F., Saginaw Co. Taken prisoner at battle
of Trevilian Station, June 11, 1864 ; died at Andersonville,
Nov. 1, 1864.
Hemminger, Isaac, Bay Co. Taken prisoner at battle of Tre
vilian Station, June 11, 1864; died at Vicksburg, April 8,
1865.
Hill, John, Saginaw Co. Killed by accident near Fort
Leavenworth, Kans., June 25, 1865.
Honsignee, Waltee L. , Tuscola Co. Taken prisoner at Rob
inson River, Va., Oct. 3, 1863; died at Andersonville, July
17, 1864.
Jagnet, E. B. Died July 19, 1864, at Andersonville prison;

104 SEVENTH REGIMENT
number on tombstone in National Cemetery at Anderson
ville, 3,564.
Kelliher, Maurice, Saginaw Co. Taken prisoner at Robin
son River, Va., Oct. 8, 1863; died at Richmond, March 30,
1864.
Knowles, Wm. H, Jackson Co. Died of disease at Leaven
worth, Kans. , July 3, 1865.
McCombee, Wm., Genesee Co. Killed in Battle at Cold
Harbor, Va , June 4, 1864.
Miller, Jacob L., Genesee Co. Wounded at Salem Church,
Va., May 27, 1864; died at Washington, June 21, 1864.
Parks, Van Ren.-aler, Jackson Co. Taken prisoner and died
at Andersonville prison, Aug. 30, 1864.
Parmalee, Joseph, Saginaw Co. Taken prisoner at Malvern
Hill, May 17, 1864 ; died at Andersonville prison, July 19,
1864 ; number of tombstone at National Cemetery at
Andersonville, 3,594.
Sohermerhorn, John, Tuscola Co. Taken prisoner at Cul
peper, Court-House, Oct. 12, 1863 ; died at Andersonville,
May 34, 1864.
Smith, Charles, Saginaw Co. Killed at Gettysburg, July 3,
1863.
Trumbal, Simeon E., Saginaw Co. Died at Washington,
March 18, 1863.
Way, Thomas H, Saginaw Co. Died at Andersonville prison,

Aug. 31, 1864.

COMPANY D.

Adams, William H., Ingham Co. Killed at Gettysburg, July 3,
1863.
Beniiam, Elias P. Died at Fairfax Court-House, June, 1863.
Bush, Christian, Eaton Co. Killed in battle of Winchester,
Sept. 19, 1864.
Bush, Fredrick, Eaton Co. Killed in battle at Hawes Shop,
Va., May 38, 1864.
Compau, Peter, Eaton Co. Killed at Boonsboro, Md., July 8,
1863.

MICHIGAN VOLUNTEER CAVALRY. 10.")
Chandler, Horace, Eaton Rapids. Died of disease at Wash
ington, May 31, 1863.
Clark, Lafayette F., Eaton Rapids. Died at Kolorama Hos
pital, Washington, April 7, 1865.
Fordham, Albert, Eaton Co. Killed at Gettysburg, July 3,
1863.
Gilbert, Geo. W., Eaton Co. Died at Richmond, Feb. 16,
1864, while a prisoner.
Gibbs, Joseph S., Eaton Co. Taken prisoner at Trevilian Sta
tion, June 11, 1864; died at Andersonville prison, Oct 4, 1864.
Gladding, Onslow H, Eaton Co. Died at Washington, D. C,
July 11, 1864.
Grant, Anson H. Taken prisoner near Williamsburg, Va.;
died at Andersonville prison, Sept. 6, 1864.
Grisler, Charles, Berrien Co. Died at Washington, D. C.
(No date given.)
Haines, Henry, Eaton Rapids, Eaton Co Killed at Gettys
burg, July 3, 1863.
Hale, Samuel B., Eaton Co. Taken prisoner at Buckland
Mills, Va. , Oct. 19, 1863; died at Andersonville prison,
Aug 14, 1864 ; number on tombstone in National Cemetery
at Andersonville, 4,674.
Hance, Charles, Eaton Co. Taken prisoner near Richmond,
Va., March 2, 1864 (during Kilpatrick's Raid); died at
Andersonville prison, July 24, 1864.
Hartson, Heney N, Eaton Co. Died of disease at Washing
ton, D. C, June 21, 1863.
Hawkins, Joseph N., Eaton Co. Died at Frederick, Md., July
20, 1863.
Hobert, Hartland. Killed in battle at South Side R. R , Va.,
April 2, 1865.
Howe, George W. Died of disease at Washington, Sept. 12,
1863
Herring, Willis W., Eaton Co. Died at Washington, June 29,
1863.
Jackson, Orlando D. , Eaton Co. Killed at Gettysburg, July 3,
1863.

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Karcheu, Jehiei., Eaton Co. Wounded at Gettysburg, July 3,
1863; died at Alexandria, Aug. 10, 1863.
Lindsay, Wallace, Bay Co. Died at Camp Collins, Colorado,
Oct. 14, 1865.
Marsh, Oliver, Grand Rapids. Died of disease at Annapolis,
Sept. 4, 1864.
McArthur, Wallace, Eaton Co. Taken prisoner near Rich
mond, March 2, 1864 (on Kilpatrick's Raid); died al Ander
sonville prison, Sept. 25, 1864; number on tombstone in
National Cemetery at Andersonville, 9,750.
Milbuen, John, Eaton Co. Killed at Gettysburg, July 3, 1863;
buried in National Cemetery at Gettysburg.
Mason, Geoege, Eaton Co. Missing in action at Gettysburg ;
died of disease at Annapolis, Dec. 11, 1863.
Pettibone, Salem E., Eaton Co. Taken prisoner near Rich
mond, March 2, 1864 (on Kilpatrick's Raid); died at Ander
sonville prison, Aug. 15, 1864.
Price, William, Eaton Co. Died of disease at Alexandria, Va.,
Aug. 10, 1863.
Pickett, Orange, Eaton Co. Died of disease at Washington,
Aug. 24, 1863.
Speague, Benjamin, Eaton Co. Taken prisoner near Rich
mond, March 2, 1864 (on Kilpatrick's Raid); died at Ander
sonville prison, July 29, 1864.
Thompson, Heney, Eaton Co. Killed in battle at Smithfield,
Va., Aug. 39, 1864.
Turner, David, Montcalm Co. Died of disease at Frederick,
Md., Dec. 22, 1864.
Vaness, Geoege E., Montcalm Co. Killed at Gettysburg, July
3, 1863.
Whitoomb, Orin J., Eaton Co. Died at Grand Rapids, Nov. 29,
1862.
COMPANY E.
Arseno, Wm. H., Oakland Co. Taken prisoner at Trevilian
Station, Va., June 11, 1864; died at Andersonville prison,
Dec. 27, 1864.

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Andrews, Chap.les. Died of injuries received by the falling
of a roof of a shed on him at Chantilly, Va., May 9, 1863.
Bolton, Wm. C, Jackson Co. Died of disease at Annapolis,
Feb. 16, 1865.
Clark, Franklin B., Scio. Washtenaw Co. Promoted to
Sergt. -Major, June 17, 1865, Accidentally shot while on
his way home in 1866.
Ceoman, Wm. Wounded in battle at Brandy Station, Oct. 11,
1863 ; died of wounds at Washington, Feb. 19, 1864.
Case, Paul. Died in service.
Daily, Almerick, Wayne Co. Taken prisoner and died of
disease at Andersonville, Sept. 13, 1864 ; number on
tombstone in National Cemetery at Andersonville,. 8,651.
Davenport, John, Jackson Co. Died of disease at Winchester,
Va., Oct. 28, 1864.
Findlater, Hugh, Washtenaw Co. Taken prisoner at Tre
vilian Station, Va., June 11,1864; died at Andersonville,
Feb. 22, 1865 ; number of tombstone at National Cemetery
at Andersonville, 12,688.
Finoh, Chas. O., Oakland Co. Taken prisoner at Gettysburg,
July 3, 1863; died in Libby prison, Va., Sept. 13, 1863.
Finoh, Robt. Killed at Gettysburg, July 3, 1863.
Higby, Elisha J., Clinton Co. Died of disease at Winchester,
Va., Oct. 28, 1864.
Hopkins, Horace, Newaygo Co. Wounded at Gettysburg,
July 3, 1863 ; died at Baltimore.
House, Baenum B. Killed in action at Old Church, Va., May
23, 1864.
Joslyn, Rudolphus, Eaton Co. Died of disease at Baltimore,
March 14, 1865.
King, Vincent, Wayne Co. Died of disease at Grand Rapids.
Feb. 19, 1863.
Keating, Michael, Wayne- Co. Taken prisoner in battle of
Trevilian Station, June 11, 1864; died in Andersonville
prison, Aug. 29, 1864.
Kisnee, Samuel, Oakland Co. Wounded by accidental dis
charge of pistol; died at Washington, D. O, July 18, 1863

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Loomis, Augustus S., Washtenaw Co. Died at Washington,
D. C, Feb. 26, 1864.
Lowell, James, Ingham Co. Taken prisoner in battle at
Yellow Tavern, Va., May 11, 1864; died in Andersonville
prison, Aug. 10, 1864; number on tombstone at National
Cemetery at Andersonville, 5,216.
Lee, Chaunoey L , Ingham Co. Died of disease at Fairfax,
Va., June 30, 1863.
MoLain, Alexander, Oakland Co. Died from wounds received
in a skirmish near Fairfax, Va., May 33, 1863.
Meeoh, Chas. K., Ingham Co. Died of disease at Warrenton,
Va., March 1, 1863.
Monroe, Wm. , Washtenaw Co. Died of Typhoid Fever at
Washington, D. C , July 13, 1863.
Nay, Harmon Missing in action at Hagerstown, Md., July 6,
1863, and never heard from.
Parmeter, Orville, Oakland Co. Died of disease at Wash
ington, D. C, Feb. 33, 1864.
Palmer, Wm. H. Died of disease at Camp Collins, Col.,
March 31, 1866.
Robinson, James B. Killed in action at Woodstock, Va., Oct.
9, 1864; buried at Winchester National Cemetery, Oct. 10,
1864.
Simonds, Barlow H, Washtenaw Co. Taken prisoner at
battle of Yellow Tavern, Va., May 13, 1864; died at
Augusta, Mich., March, 1865, of disease contracted while
prisoner at Andersonville.
Simonds, Albert O., Washtenaw Co Taken prisoner in battle
of Yellow Tavern, May 11, 1864; died at Andersonville,
Ga., Oct. 4, 1864.
Smith, Thomas, Washtenaw Co. Taken prisoner at Snickers*
Gap, Va. ; died in Libby prison at Richmond,Va. , March, 1864.
Whitman, Hiram, Washtenaw Co. Died of disease at Grand
Rapids, Feb. 18, 1863.
COMPANY F.
Armstrong, James H. , Hillsdale Co. Taken prisoner and died
of wounds at Richmond, May 30, 1864.

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Bedel, Harlan, Oakland Co. Wounded in battle at Five
Forks, March 31, 1865; died at Dinwiddie, Va., April 3,
1865.
Bedell, James T., Oakland Co. Wounded at Gettysburg, July
3, 1863; died at Gettysburg, Aug. 15, 1863; number of
grave at National Cemetery 33, Section A.
Blodgett, Jay. Died of disease at Fairfax, Va., May 31, 1863.
Blanohard, James, Barry Co. Taken prisoner in action at
Trevilian Station, June 11, 1864; died at Andersonville
prison, Sept. 15, 1864.
Coohean, Harlan B., Lenawee Co. Killed in battle at Falling
Water, July 14, 1863.
Cain, Russel A., Barry Co. Died of disease at Jackson, Mich.,
May 18, 1864.
Cooper, John F. Died at Andersonville, Aug. 6, 1864
Ceuioe, John D. Taken prisoner in battle at Yellow Tavern,
Va., May 11, 1864; died at Andersonville prison, Sept. 17,
1864.
Fritts, Alvin W., Jackson Co. Died of disease at St. Louis,
June 23, 1865.
Guio, Henry, Hillsdale Co. Killed in battle at Falling Waters,
July 14, 1863.
Hoagland, Abram, Hillsdale Co. Died of disease at Alexand
ria, Feb. 10, 1864.
Hoag, Robert, Sheridan Co. Killed at Gettysburg, July 3,
1863.
Howe, Isaac O., Barry Co. Taken prisoner at Trevilian Stat
ion, June 11, 1864; died at Andersonville prison, Nov. 17,
1864 ; number on tombstone in National Cemetery at An
dersonville, 12,067.
Lewis, Edward F., Calhoun Co. Died at Fairfax, Va., May 29,
1863.
Lundy, George W., Hillsdale Co. Wounded at Gettysburg,
July 3, 1863 ; died at Gettysburg. July 15, 1863.
Minor, Charles E., Lenawee Co. Killed at Gettysburg, July
3, 1863; number of grave at National Cemetery 19, Sec
tion C.

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Miller, L. Died at Andersonville, Aug. 9, 1864.
Mercer, Thomas, Hillsdale Co. Killed at Smithfield, West Va.,
Aug. 20, 1864.
Mellon, Jerome, Barry Co. Died of disease at Washington,
D. C, Aug. 11, 1864.
Page, Truman, Litchfield. Wounded and taken prisoner in
battle at Yellow Tavern, May 11, 1864.
Paule, Jacob, Hillsdale Co. Killed in battle at Yellow Tavern,
May 11, 1864.
Peck, John W., Barry Co. Died of disease at York, Pa.,
July 15, 1864.
Philips, Peleg T., Barry Co. Died of disease at York, Pa.,
Aug. 27, 1864.
Ralph, Osoae S., Hillsdale Co. Killed in battle at Falling
Waters, July 14, 1863.
Riley, Miles, Barry Co. Taken prisoner at battle of Yellow
Tavern, May 11, 1864; died at Andersonville. Sept. 13, 1864;
number on tombstone at Andersonville, 8,617.
Robinson, George H., Barry Co. Died of disease at Alexan
dria, March 18, 1864.
Stowe, Simeon, Eaton Co. Died of disease at Kalamazoo,
April 2, 1865.
Stewart, Clark, Hillsdale Co. Taken prisoner at battle of
Yellow Tavern, May 11, 1864; died at Andersonville, June
30, 1864
Wilson, Royal 8 Taken prisoner and died of disease at Bal
timore, May 31, 1865.
Williams, Job J., Barry Co. Died of Consumption at Alexan
dria, July 25, 1863.
Kelly, Wm. J., Hillsdale Co. Died of disease at Fairfax Court
House, April 12, 1863.
COMPANY G.
Bell, Wm., Eaton Co. Died of Typhoid Fever at Fairfax, Va.,
June 25, 1863.
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MICHIGAN VOLUNTEER CAVALRY'. Ill
Buckland Mills, Oct. 19, 1863; died at Andersonville
prison.
Churchill, Alfred W., Washtenaw Co. Wounded in battle
at Cedar Creek, West Va.; died of wounds Nov. 8, 1864.
Ceampton, T. H. Killed in battle at Hagerstown, Md., July 6,
1863.
Delamatee, Martin R., Ingham Co. Wounded at Cold
Harbor, Va., in battle; died at Fort Schuyler, N. Y., Aug.
7, 1864.
Dice, Francis, Saginaw Co. Died at St. Louis, June 14, 1865.
Henderson, George, Kent Co. Died of disease at Stephens-
burg, Jan. 8, 1864.
Ipe, John, Muskegon Co. Died at Washington, May 31, 1865.
Johnson, Luman H. , Shiawasee Co. Taken prisoner in battle
at Morton's Ford, Nov. 23,1863; died at Andersonville,
Aug. 4, 1864.
Motley, Thomas, Bay Co. Killed at Gettysburg, July 3, 1863 ;
number of grave at National Cemetery 4, Section F.
North, Charles, Bay Co. Died of Typhoid Fever at Wash
ington, D. C, June 29, 1863.
Philips, Geo. S., Washtenaw Co. Died at Annapolis, Nov. 26,
1864.
Spear, Truman, Washtenaw Co. Killed at Gettysburg, July
3, 1863.
Tibbitts, Howard A., Shiawasee Co. Died at Fairfax, Va.,
June 25, 1863.
COMPANY H.
Andrus, Henry, Kalamazoo Co. Died of Consumption at
Washington, D. C, March 6, 1864.
Batt, James A., Kalamazoo Co. Died of Typhoid Fever in
Columbia College Hospital at Washington, D. G, March 6,
1864.
Briggs, John E., Kalamazoo Co. Died of Typhoid Fever at
Fairfax Court-House, Va., June 7, 1863.
Clark, James, Eaton Co. Died at Emery Hospital, Washing
ton, D. C, May 9, 1865.

1 1 2 SEVENTH REGIMENT
Fisher, Albert H. Died at Frederick, Md., Aug. 21, 1864.
Kemp, Alfred, Kalamazoo Co. Died of disease at Detroit,
April 24, 1864.
Knapp, Vine, Kalamazoo Co. Taken prisoner at Gainesville,
Oct. 14, 1863 ; died at Richmond, Feb. 16, 1864.
Kent, Theodore F. , Barry Co. Died in Camp at Stephensburg,
Va , April 10, 1864.
Martin, Eugene W., Kalamazoo Co. Died of Typhoid Fever
at Fairfax Court-House, Va., April 15, 1863.
McClary, W. H., Kalamazoo Co. Taken prisoner at battle of
Trevilian Station, Va., June 11, 1864; died at Anderson
ville prison, Sept. 28, 1864; number of tombstone in
National Cemetery at Andersonville, 9,965.
McClure, Ralph, Wayne Co. Died at Andersonville prison,
Sept. 10, 1864.
Mingo, James H, Calhoun Co. Died of disease at Fort Collins,
Col., Oct. 7, 1865.
Mills, Harvey. Wounded at battle of Yellow Tavern, Va.,
May 11. 1864 ; died at Point Lookout, Sept. 15, 1864.
Nichols, Wm. H. , Kalamazoo Co. Wounded and taken
prisoner and died at Gordonsville, Va., June 16, 1864;
number of grave at National Cemetery at Culpeper 84.
Palmer, John L., Kalamazoo Co. Died of Typhoid Fever at
Cumberland, Md., June 5, 1865.
Peenttce, Sidney R., Kalamazoo Co. Died of disease at
Baltimore or Fredericksburg, Md., Sept. 24, 1864.
Reasonee, Heney M., Kalamazoo Co. Wounded at Gettys
burg, July 3, 1863 ; died at Baltimore, July 29, 1863.
Russell, Jambs F., Salem, Washtenaw Co. Died of disease at
Washington, D. C, May 10, 1865.
Smith, Stephen D., Kalamazoo Co. Died of Smallpox in hos
pital at Washington, March 23, 1863.
Smith, Pbrey W. Taken prisoner and died at Andersonville
prison, Nov. 1, 1864.
Stewart, John. Taken prisoner at Gainesville, Va., Oct.
14, 1863; died in prison at Belle Isle, Va., March 9,
1864.

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Siiean, William, Barry Co. Died of disease at Brandy Station,
Va., March 10, 1864.
Woodard, Henry J. Taken prisoner at Forest Ferry, July 29,
1864; died at Parole Camp, Annapolis, March 3, 1865.
COMPANY I.
Bennett, Reuben, Calhoun Co. Died of disease at Frederick,
Md., Aug. 9, 1863.
Cornell, Samuel, Ionia Co. Died of disease at Leavenworth,
Kans., June 22, 1865.
Cochran, William, Lenawee Co. Wounded and taken prisoner
at Front Royal, Va., Aug. 16, 1864; died Sept. 21, 1864.
Drifbnbaoher, Andrew, Eaton Co. Died of Typhoid Fever at
Fairfax, Va., June 3, 1863.
Fish, Austin O., Ionia Co. Died of disease at Harper's Ferry,
April 18, 1865.
Gardner, Wm. , Eaton Co. Died in hospital near Winchester,
W. Va., of Typhoid Fever, Jan. 39, 1865.
Gay, Newton S. Died of disease at Fairfax, Va., June 8, 1863.
Hall, Lorimis A., Calhoun Co. Died of Typhoid Fever at
Washington, D. C, June 13, 1865.
Harris, George. Died of Typhoid Fever at Fairfax, Va , June
17, 1863.
Hasty, Robert, Lenawee Co. Killed at Gettysburg, July 3,
1863.
Jackson, James, Lenawee Co. Taken prisoner at Brandy Sta
tion, Va., Oct. 11, 1803 ; died at Andersonville prison, June
1, 1864
Jones, Josiah W., Eaton Co. Died of Typhoid Fever at Win
chester, Dec. 6, 1864.
Lucas, Charles H., Washtenaw Co. Died of disease at Har
per's Ferry, April 37, 1865.
Mosiier, Stephen L., Hillsdale Co. Taken prisoner at battle
of Trevilian Station, Va., June 11, 1864; died at Anderson
ville Sept. 9, 1864; number of tombstone in National
Cemetery at Andersonville, 8,994.

114 SEVENTH REGIMENT
McLoud, John. Died of Pneumonia at Washington, March 7,
1863.
McDale, John R., Washtenaw Co. Died of disease at Bladens
burg, D. C, May 24, 1865.
Nolan, Arthur D. Wounded in battle and died at Summer
Hill, Va., May 30, 1864.
Parsons, Zenas, Washtenaw Co. Died at Andersonville prison,
Sept. 9. 1864.
Som.mers, John, Lenawee Co. Died of Pneumonia at Washing
ton, March 4, 1863.
Wood, John, Eaton Co. Died of disease at Washington, May
9, 1865.
Williams, Squire. Wounded in battle and died at Washing
ton, D. C, June, 1864.
COMPANY K.
Boswell, Abram. Died at Jackson, Mich., May 10, 1864.
Baker, Daniel. Missing in action at Gettysburg, July 3, 1863;
died at Annapolis, July 28, 1863.
Bennett, Nelson. Died at Fort Hallock, Wyo., Oct. 26, 1865.
Cline, Andrew J., Jackson Co. Died at Greensboro hospital,
Sept. 20, 1864.
Dunn, Daniel. Killed in battle at Yellow Tavern, Va., May
11, 1864.
Downer, Jacob R., Eaton Co. Wounded in battle at Yellow
Tavern, Va., May 11, 1864; died of wounds at Elmira, Dec.
27, 1864.
England, Morris. Wounded and taken prisoner at Trevilian
Station, Va., June 11, 1864; died of wounds at Annapolis,
Md., March 11, 1865.
Hamel, Herman or Harbison, Mackinaw Co. Wounded at
battle of Winchester, Sept. 19, 1864; died Sept. 21, 1864.
Isham, Geoege. Killed on Skirmish Line at Groveton, Va ,
Sept., 1863.
Ingledue, Eber. Died at Richmond, Va., April 3, 1864, while
a prisoner.

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Livermore, Heney H. Died at Stevensburg, Va.; number of
grave at National Cemetery at Culpeper, 216.
Lowe, Henry. Died of fever at Washington, June 25, 1863.
McDonald, John J. Died of gun-shot wound at Washington,
July 1, 1865.
Madison, Joseph, Mackinaw Co. Died at Mackinaw, April
26, 1865.
Reed, Henry A., Ingham Co. Died of disease at City Point,
Va., Junel, 1864.
Robinson, Franklin, Saginaw Co. Died of disease at Leaven
worth, Kans , June 10, 1865.
Spencer, Jambs L. Died at Harwood Hospital, Washington,
Oct. 10, 1864.
Smith, Eli, Eaton Co. Killed at Gettysburg, July 3, 1863.
Stilwell, James O. Died at Broad and Pine Sts. Hospital,
Philadelphia, Aug. 25, 1864.
Stanwell, James O. Died at Greensboro Hospital, Aug. 25,
1S64.
Springer, J. Taken prisoner and died at Andersonville prison,
Oct. 36, 1864; number on headstone at Andersonville
National Cemetery, 11,510.
Teaoy, David. Taken prisoner and died at Andersonville
prison, Sept. 3, 1864; number of tombstone in National
Cemetery at Andersonville, 7,599.
Tubbs, Phillip, Eaton Co. Taken prisoner and died at Ander
sonville prison, July 6, 1864.
Wright, Wm. A., Newaygo Co. Taken prisoner and died at
Andersonville prison, April 38, 1864.
COMPANY L.
Brown, William, St. Clair Co. Died while a prisoner, June 1,
1864.
Baird, Henry 0., Saginaw Co. Died of disease at Washington,
Jan. 17, 1864.
Brenen, Michael, Saginaw Co. Died in Washington, 1864.
Benson, Stephen E., Kent Co. Died of disease at Alexandria,
Va., Nov. 30, 1863.

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Batf.s, Wm. F., Kent Co. Taken prisoner at White's Ford,
Va., Rapidan River, Sept. 33, 1863; died of disease in
hospital, Sept. 34, 1864.
Coombs, John G., Kent Co. Taken prisoner at White's Ford,
Rapidan River, Sept. 33, 1863 ; died at Richmond, April
26, 1864.
Cameron, Daniel, Bay Co. Missing in action at White's Ford,
Rapidan River, Sept. 22, 1863 ; died of disease in prison.
Deas, Abraham, Kent Co. Missing in action at White's Ford,
Rapidan River, Sept 22, 1863 ; died in prison at Anderson
ville ; number on tombstone in National Cemetery at
Andersonville, 315.
Green, Albert A., Saginaw Co. Missing in action at White's
Ford, Rapidan River, Sept. 22, 1863 ; died a prisoner at
Richmond, Va , Jan. 23, 1864.
Gates, George W., Ottawa Co. Died from disease at Wash
ington, D. C, Nov. 23, 1863.
Gates, Henry J., Genesee Co. Died on the western plains in
1866.
Hooker, Alonza H, Saginaw Co. Taken prisoner at battle of
Trevilion Station, Va., June 11,1864; died of disease at
Annapolis, Dec. 3, 1864.
Johnson, Henry, St. Clair Co. Died a prisoner, March 1, 1864.
Marshall, Richard, Canada. Died in hospital, 1864.
Mayfield, Henry. Missing in action at White's Ford, Rapi-
dam River, Sept. 22, 1863; died a prisoner at Richmond,
March, 1864.
Mason, Peter, St. Clair Co. Taken prisoner, March 1, 1864;
died at Andersonville, Sept. 4, 1864; number on tombstone
at Andersonville, 7,513.
Mosiier, Chas. Died of disease at Fort Leavenworth, Kans.,
June 29, 1865.
Pomeroy, David H, Saginaw Co. Killed in action at Tumble
Run while on duty with Battery B. & L., June 9, 1864.
Pattison, Henry, Bay Co. Taken prisoner at White's Ford,
Rapidan River, Sept. 23, 1863 ; died of disease at An
napolis, April 3, 1864.

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Rollin, Chas. D., Saginaw Co. Taken prisoner near Rich
mond, March 1, 1864; died a prisoner.
Rammont, John, St. Clair Co. Taken prisoner at White's
Ford, Rapidan River, Sept. 33, 1863 ; died a prisoner at
Richmond, March 30, 1864.
Smith, Wm., St. Clair Co. Taken prisoner at White's Ford,
Sept. 33, 1863; died at Andersonville, Nov. 26, 1864;
number on tombstone at National Cemetery at Anderson
ville, 172.
Siel, David, Saginaw Co. Taken prisoner at White's Ford,
Rapidan River, Sept. 22, 1863 ; died while a prisoner.
Smith, John. Died of disease at hospital in Philadelphia, Sept.
24, 1864.
Teery, George A., Saginaw Co. Died in prison at Salisbury,
Ga., Jan. 13, 1865.
Thompson, Thomas D., Saginaw Co. Taken prisoner at
White's Ford, Rapidan River, Sept. 22, 1863 ; died while
a prisoner.
Wilson, John, St. Clair Co. Died while a prisoner, March 1,
1864.
Wright, Epheaim, Saginaw Co. Taken prisoner at White's
Ford, Rapidan River, Sept. 22, 1863 ; died at Naval School
Hospital at Annapolis, Md. , Nov. 14, 1863.
COMPANY M.
Austin, Feanois, Ottawa Co. Taken prisoner at battle of
Buckland Mills, Va., Oct. 19, 1863; died at Richmond, Va.,
Jan. 9, 1864.
Barnard, G. Died at Andersonville prison, Sept. 27, 186 I ;
number on tombstone in National Cemetery at Anderson
ville, 9,853.
Brannan, M. Died at Rapidan River, Va., Jan. 19, 1864; num
ber of grave at National Cemetery at Culpepper, 36.
Caepentee, O. W. Missing in action at battle of Trevilian
Station, Va., June 11, 1864; died Dec. 6, 1864, while a
prisoner.

118 SEVENTH REGIMENT.
Cofman, John. Died at Winchester, Va., Jan. 11, 1865.
Coates, L. Died at Winchester, Va. , Jan. 28, 1865.
Durham, Emery, Kent Co. Taken prisoner at Buckland Mills,
Oct. 19, 1863; died a prisoner at Richmond, Feb. 17, 1864.
Fisher, Albeet. Died in Maryland, Aug. 22, 1864.
Fox, C. A. Died at Richmond, Va., Nov. 19, 1863, of Typhoid
Fever, while a prisoner.
Fox, William H, Kent Co. Died of wounds received in battle
at Winchester, Va., Sept. 19, 1864.
Gifford, Geo. R. W., Saginaw Co. Died of disease at Wash
ington, March, 1864.
Gunner, James (chief bugler). Missing in action at Trevilian
Station, June 11, 1864; died at Annapolis, Dec. 16, 1864.
Hawkins, Alphonzo, Washtenaw Co. Taken prisoner at Buck-
land Mills, Oct. 19, 1863; died at Annapolis, May 10, 1864.
Peekinson, Geo., Washtenaw Co. Taken prisoner, March 1,
1864; died at Richmond, Va., June 6, 1864.
Perkins, Henry, Saginaw Co. Died at Richmond, Va. , Feb.
2, 1865.
Quirk, John, Ottawa Co. Missing in action at Buckland Mills,
Oct. 19, 1863 ; died at Richmond, Nov. 16, 1863.
Riggs, E. R. Died at Annapolis, Md., Dec. 13, 1863.
Steucke, Henry, Grand Rapids. Died of disease at Camp
Stoneman, Va., July 13, 1863.
Sprague, Wm. P., Tuscola Co. Died of disease at Alexandria,
July 30, 1863.
Smith, Wm. Died at Andersonville prison, March 36, 1864.
Taber, Winfield S., Kalamazoo Co. Killed at Culpeper, Va.,
Sept. 14, 1863 ; number of grave at National Cemetery at
Culpeper, 272.
Van Duzer, Charles E., Lenawee Co. Killed in action.

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