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Michigan Cavalry Brigade 2
Three hundred and seventy of the 1st Cavalry having re-enlisted as veterans, it started for home on the 21st of December, arriving in Detroit on the 7th of January, 1864. It left its rendezvous at Kalamazoo, at the expiration of the furloughs, reporting at Camp Stoneman, D. C, on the 1st of Mar where it was newly equipped before going into the field. Here it joined the new battalion which had been mustered in at Mt. Clemens, in December pre vious. This regiment being absent from the field in Michigan on veteran furlough, did not participate in the "Kilpatrick raid," but returned in time to enter on the great campaign of 1864, under General Grant.
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