Gould, Lieut. T. Dean,
Lieut. G.N. Dutcher--4.
Sixth Michigan--Lieut. George W. Crawford; Capt. H.E. Thompson, Capt. J.
H. Kidd, Lieut. E. Potter, Lieut. S. Shipman--5.
Seventh Michigan--Lieut. J.G. Birney, Lieut. J.L. Carpenter, Lieut. E.
Gray, Lieut. C. Griffith, Capt. Alex. Walker--5.]
[Footnote 16: Brigadier General Henry E. Davies, formerly colonel Second
New York cavalry, assigned as permanent successor of Farnsworth, killed
at Gettysburg.]
[Footnote 17: Attached to the Michigan brigade.]
[Footnote 18: Rosser, Young and Gordon.]
[Footnote 19: Since reporting for duty, October 12, I had been in
command of the regiment.]
[Footnote 20: Campaigns of Stuart's Cavalry.]
[Footnote 21: Fitzhugh Lee was Custer's instructor in West Point before
the war broke out.]
[Footnote 22: Kilpatrick's Report, Official Records, series I. vol.
XXXIII. p. 133.]
[Footnote 23: "Unless the separate commands in an expedition of this
nature are very prompt in movement, and each equal to overcoming at once
any obstacle it may meet combinations rarely work out as
expected."--Personal Memoirs of P.H. Sheridan, vol. I, p. 373.]
[Footnote 24: A small stream crossing the turnpike and after which the
historical pike was named.]
[Footnote 25: On page 813, Vol. XXXVI, Series I, Part 1, of the War
Records, in the report of General Merritt appears the following: "A
charge made, mounted, by one regiment of the First brigade, (the Fifth
Michigan)." The words in parenthesis should be the First Michigan. It is
a pity that the official records should thus falsify history.]
[Footnote 26: I am not positive that these were the particular tunes the
bands played.]
[Footnote 27: Personal Memoirs of P.H. Sheridan, Vol. I: page 417. Also
Records, Series I, Vol. XXXVI, part 1.]
[Footnote 28: Taken from the official records in the office of the
adjutant general of Michigan, Lansing, Michigan.]
[Footnote 29: Taken from the official records in the office of the
adjutant general of Michigan, Lansing, Michigan.]
[Footnote 30: Official Records, Series I, Vol. XXXVI, part I, page 851.]
[Footnote 31: Official Records, Series I, Vol. XXXVI, part I, page 810.]
[Footnote 32:
"Headquarters 1st Brig. 1st Div. Cavalry Corps,
June 3, 1864.
To His Excellency
Governor Blair,
I most cheerfully and earnestly recommend that the foregoing petition
may be granted. Major Kidd has commanded his regiment for several
months. He
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