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On the 29th of June, 1863, Lieutenant Custer had been appointed a Brigadier General of volunteers, and under orders assumed command of the Michigan Cavalry Brigade, composed of the 1st, Colonel Town; 5th, Colonel Alger; 6th, Colonel Gray; and 7th, Colonel Mann.
Tinder his command it entered upon and took part in the operations of the army preceding and in the great battle of Gettysburg, having been heavily engaged on the 30th of June at Hanover. On July 1st it inarched toward York, passing through Abbotsville to Berlin, encamping there that night; next day it engaged the enemy at Hunterstown, and on the 3d at Gettysburg.
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