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Civil War Cavalry
M. Captain, Rollin C. Denison, Kalamazoo. First Lieutenant, Charles H. Sprague, Kalamazoo. Second Lieutenant, William M. Heazlitt, Dowagiac.
Freeman Norvell having been commissioned as Captain to rank from August 22d, 1861, was assigned to the command of Company B, on the 23d of November following, vice Town, promoted to Major.
The 1st, while in Camp Lyon, near Detroit, on September 28, 1861, was made the recipient of a flag from the citizens of Springwells. The presentation was made by the Hon. H. T. Backus, to which Colonel Brodhead replied in a telling speech, full of burning eloquence and patriotism.
Michigan Cavalry
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