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Michigan Cavalry Brigade 2
Colonel George G. Briggs, then first lieutenant and adjutant, and Lieutenant Roswell Holmes, both of the 7th Michigan Cavalry, were taken prisoners by the enemy, at Buckland Mills, Va., in 1863, and remained in their hands for two days and nights. When being conveye_ -the rear of the rebel army, in company with about one hundred other prisoners, they were place,. the second night in an old barn, strongly guarded. During a heavy storm that occurred at about 1 o clock in the morning, they both succeeded in effecting their escape from the barn by running the guard, They were live days and nights within the rebel lines, and had many narrow escapes from
recapture, suffering much from cold and hunger, and were only able to reach the Union lines by
night marches, and the greatest precaution.
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