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763 Series I Volume XLVI-II Serial 96 - Appomattox Campaign Part II

Page 763 Chapter LVIII. CORRESPONDENCE, ETC.-UNION.

CAVALRY.

Major General PHILIP H. SHERIDAN.*

FIRST DIVISION.

Brigadier General THOMAS C. DEVIN.

First Brigade.

Colonel PETER STAGG.

1st Michigan (detachment), Lieutenant Colonel George R. Maxwell.

5th Michigan, Lieutenant Colonel Smith H. Hastings.

6th Michigan, Colonel James H. Kidd.

7th Michigan, Lieutenant Colonel George G. Briggs.

25th New York,+ Captain Simon E. Chamberlin.

Second Brigade.

Colonel CHARLES L. FITZHUGH.

4th New York (four companies), Major Edward Schwartz.

6th New York, Major Harrison White.

9th New York, Lieutenant Colonel George S. Nichols.

19th New York (1st Dragoons), Major Howard M. Smith.

17th Pennsylvania, Lieutenant Colonel Coe Durland.

20th Pennsylvania, Lieutenant Colonel Gabriel Middleton.

Reserve Brigade.

Brigadier General ALFRED GIBBS.

2nd Massachusetts, Colonel Casper Crowninshield.

6th Pennsylvania, Lieutenant Colonel Charles L. Leiper.

1st Rhode Island (four companies), Captain John Rogers.

2nd United States, Captain Charles E. Norris.

5th United States, Lieutenant Gustavus Urban.

6th United States, Lieutenant Curwen B. McLellan.

SECOND DIVISION.

Brigadier General GEORGE H. CHAPMAN.

First Brigade.

Bvt. Brigadier General WILLIAM B. TIBBITS.

21st New York, Major Charles G. Otis.

14th Pennsylvania, Lieutenant Colonel William Blakely.

22nd Pennsylvania,+ Lieutenant Colonel Andrew J. Greenfield.

THIRD DIVISION.

Bvt. Major General GEORGE A. CUSTER.

First Brigade.

Colonel ALEXANDER C. M. PENNINGTON, Jr.

1st Connecticut, Colonel Brayton Ives.

3rd New Jersey, Lieutenant Colonel William P. Robeson, jr.

2nd New York, Colonel Alansoin M. Randol.

2nd Ohio, Lieutenant Colonel A. Bayard Nettleton.

Second Brigade.

Colonel JOHN J. COPPINGER.

3rd Indiana (two companies), Lieutenant Benjamin F. Gilbert.

1st New Hampshire (detachment), Colonel John L. Thompson.

8th New York, Major James Bliss.

15th New York, Major Henry Roessle.

22nd New York, Lieutenant Colonel Horatio B. Reed.

1st Vermont, Major William G. Cummings.

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*Commanding expedition to Petersburg, Va.; Bvt. Major General Wesley Merritt in immediate command of the First and Third Division; Bvt. Major General Alfred T. A. Torbert in command of the force remaining in the Middle Military Division, consisting of the First Brigade, Second Division (Department of West Virginia), and the Artillery Reserve Brigade.

+Detached.

++Also borne on return of Second Brigade, Second Division, Department of West Virginia, p. 761.

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