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Report made to the Adjutant General of the Army, July 1st, 1880, by Colonel Alger, commanding 5th Cavalry, covering operations of his regiment:
" In compliance with the former request from your predecessor. General
asking for a report of the 5th Michigan Cavalry Vols., for the ' Gettysburg Campaign,' as none for the regiment is on file in the War Department, I have the honor to submit the following, believing it to be entirely correct, as far as it goes:
" I find letters written by me to my wife of the following dates, giving our movement quite fully Fairfax Court House, Va., June 24th, 1863; Frederick, Md., June 26th, 1863; Gettysburg, Pa., June 28th, 1863; Hanover Pa., July 1st, 1863; Emmettaburg, Md., July 4th, 1863; Boonsborough, Md., July 8th, 1863; Frederick, Md., July 10th 1863.
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