Haw's Shop May 28 1864

TOTAL NUMBER KILLED IN ACTION

First Michigan Cavalry 157
Fifth Michigan Cavalry 144
Sixth Michigan Cavalry 141
Seventh Michigan Cavalry 106
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Total 548

FOOTNOTES:

[Footnote 1: Quoted from "Michigan in the War."]

[Footnote 2: The original roster of the regiment may be found in
appendix "A" to this volume.]

[Footnote 3: Grand Rapids, Michigan, so named on account of its location
in the heart of the valley of Grand river. Also known as the "Furniture
City," referring to its chief industry.]

[Footnote 4: Robert Williams, a Virginian, grandson of James Williams,
of the Virginia line in the Revolution. He married the widow of Stephen
A. Douglas.]

[Footnote 5: Third Michigan infantry. It served three years, and was
then reorganized as the "New Third."]

[Footnote 6: Since the above was written I have become satisfied that
this man was really taken prisoner and that he died as such in the
Confederate prison at Andersonville. His name appears on one of the
markers in the national cemetery there.]

[Footnote 7: September, 1907.]

[Footnote 8: Official Records, Series 1, Vol. XXVII, Part III, page
276.]

[Footnote 9: The Michigan cavalry brigade was the outgrowth of the
reorganization of the Federal cavalry that followed Lee's invasion of
the North and Hooker's consequent movement into Maryland. It consisted
originally, as has been shown, of three regiments--the Fifth, Sixth and
Seventh. They were all organized in 1862, spent the winter of 1862-63 in
camp on Meridian and Capitol Hills, Washington, D. C., and during the
spring months of the latter year, were engaged in doing outpost duty in
Fairfax County, Va., within the defenses of Washington. They were,
therefore, in the language of another, "fresh from pastures green" when
General Hooker, en route to Maryland in June, 1863, picked them up in
passing and made them a part of that grand Army of the Potomac which, on
the battle-field of Gettysburg, won a renown as lasting as history
itself.

The commanding officer was Brigadier General J.T. Copeland, a Michigan
man, promoted from the colonelcy of the Fifth. The battalion commanders
were, respectively, Colonels Russell A. Alger, George Gray and William
D. Ma