Second Regiment Cavalry One foot in the stirrup, one hand on the mane, One glance at the flag floating there! Then firm in the saddle, and loosened the rein, And the sword blade gleams bare.” The Second Cavalry was organized by the Hon. F. W. Kellogg of Grand Rapids, then a Member of Congress, authority [...]
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G. Captain, Frederick Fowler, Hillsdale. First Lieutenant, Jasper A. Waterman, Hillsdale. Second Lieutenant, James Hawley, Hillsdale. H. Captain, Chester E. Newman, Detroit. First Lieutenant, George E. Adair, Utica. Second Lieutenant, Alexander Grant, Utica. I. Captain, Charles H. Goodale, Kalamazoo. First Lieutenant, Milo W. Barrows, Kalamazoo. Second Lieutenant, George S. Hodges, Galesburg. K. Captain, Archibald P. [...]
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It was actively engaged in the investment of the island, which finally led to its surrender. After the capture of the island referred to, it moved with the army under Pope to Farmington, Miss., and being in the advance it encountered the enemy at Pine Hill, May 2d, and at Monterey on the 3d, and [...]
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Colonel Sheridan assumed command at once, and was soon in the saddle. In a very few days he was in the spirited fight at Boonville, one of the brightest minor victories of the war. The operations of the 2d Michigan Cavalry in that affair, as detailed in the following special report made to the Adjutant [...]
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At that hour there was but one company on picket, Company K, 2d Michigan Cavalry, commanded by Captain A. P. Campbell. Taking advantage of the cover of the woods, he checked the enemy long enough to receive a reinforcement of three companies, numbering only from 35 to 50 men each. The ground, although presenting advantages [...]
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Next day 125 of the enemy’s killed were buried and numbers of his wounded were left at houses in the neighborhood, and he carried off full loads of wounded In his ambulances. The 2d Michigan lost forty-one in killed and wounded.” General Rosecrans’s evidence before the committee on the Conduct of the War, was as [...]
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The command after making a circuit of about one hundred miles or more in rear of the rebel army, then concentrated at Corinth, burned the railroad bridge at Boonville, captured a great quantity of arms of all kinds, destroying a large supply train. On the morning of the 30th May, Sheridan repulsed an attack of [...]
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which proved too formidable to attack, and he was ordered back to Boonville and thence proceeded with the army to Corinth. ” On the 11th, Sheridan assumed command of the 2d brigade of the cavalry division, army of the Mississippi, composed of the 2d Michigan and 2d Iowa Cavalry. On the 26th he was ordered [...]
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In August following he was attacked near Rienzi by a large command of cavalry under Colonel Faulkner which he signally defeated, and drove to within a few miles of Ripley, dispersing the whole force and capturing a large number of prisoners and arms. He remained with his brigade in that locality until September 7th, when [...]
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