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394 Series I Volume XLIX-I Serial 103 - Mobile Bay Campaign Part I

Page 394 KY.,S.W.VA.,TENN., N. & C.GA.,MISS.,ALA., & W.FLA.

Names of officers and men of the Cavalry Corps, Military Division of the Mississippi, mentioned by their respective commanders for bravery and efficiency shown in the late campaign from Chickasaw, Ala., to Macon, Ga.

FIRST DIVISION.

Name, rank, and regiment. By whom Remarks.

mentioned.

Colonel J. B. Dorr, Eight Brigadier

Iowa General J. T.

Croxton

Colonel R. M. Kelly, ...do...

Fourth Kentucky (mounted)

Infantry

Lieutenant Colonel ...do...

Thomas W. Johnston,

Second Michigan

Major W. H. Fidler, Sixth ...do...

Kentucky

Captain Edmund Penn, ...do...

Sixth Kentucky

Captain and ...do...

Asst. Adjt. General ---

Sutherland

Captain and ...do...

Actg. Asst. Insp.

General --- Baker

Captain and Provost- ...do...

Marshal --- Walden

Lieutenant and Aide-de- ...do...

Camp --- Lusk

Lieutenant and Aide-de- ...do...

Camp --- Kelley

Lieutenant --- Prather, ...do... Aide to general

Fourth Indiana commanding corps

Quartermaster-Sergeant -- ...do...

- Walker

Commissary-Sergeant --- ...do...

Wentworth

Colonel --- Cooper, Colonel O. H.

Fourth Kentucky La Grange

Captain R. S. Hill, ...do... Wounded at West

Second Indiana Point. Left

Chickasaw with a

leave of absence in

his pocket. At West

point was suffering

a wound received

two weeks

previously

Lieutenant D. S. Moulton, ...do... Brigade staff

Fourth Indiana

Lieutenant E. S. Chase, ...do... Do.

First Wisconsin

Sergt. Edwin Farel, First ...do... First inside the

Wisconsin rebel works at West

Point.

Colonel O. H. La Grange, Recommended To be brigadier-

First Wisconsin, by Brigadier general of

commanding Second Brigade General John volunteers.

T. Croxton

for promotion

Lieutenant Colonel W. W. ...do... To be colonel by

Bradley, Seventh Kentucky brevet.

Lieutenant Colonel Henry ...do... Do.

Harnden, First Wisconsin

Lieutenant Colonel ...do... Do.

Thomas W. Johnston,

Second Michigan

Major W. H. Fidler, Sixth ...do... To be lieutenant-

Kentucky colonel by brevet.

Captain R. S. Hill, ...do... To be major.

Second Indiana

Captain James M. McCown, ...do... To be major by

Sixth Kentucky brevet.

Captain Edmund Penn, ...do... Do.

Sixth Kentucky

Captain Walter ...do... Do.

Whittermore, Second

Michigan

SECOND DIVISION.

Lieutenant Colonel Frank Colonel J. G. Gallant charge on

White, Seventeenth Indiana Vail artillery with but

four companies of

his regiment.

Major --- Eldridge, Lieutenant

Fourth Michigan Colonel B. D.

Pritchard

Captain --- Hathaway, ...do...

Fourth Michigan

Captain --- Potter, ...do...

Fourth Michigan

Adjt. --- Dickinson, ...do...

Fourth Michigan

Captain C. T. Hudson, ...do...

Fourth Michigan

Major D. E. Livermore, ...do...

Third Ohio Volunteer

Cavalry.


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