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Michigan Cavalry Brigade
In this engagement Lieutenant Orwin M. Baftlett was killed; also, Lieutenant George 0. Whitney."
Colonel Kidd, 6th Michigan, says of his regiment, in an engagement near Five Forks:
" On the 4th of April the regiment charged the enemy's line of battle, near Beaver Mills, Va., losing in the charge Lieutenant S. H. Pinney, a gallant officer."
Colonel Briggs says of his regiment:
" On the morning of the 3,0th of March, 1865, the 7th regiment of Michigan Cavalry la found with the gallant Phil. Sheridan on the right flank of the rebel army near Five Forks, Va. For thirty days previous the regiment had, with "the balance of Sheridan's cavalry, been constantly on the march, being of the command with which he moved from the Shen-andoah Valley on the 27th of February, and undertook his celebrated raid to the James riverr, and which was attended with such important and brilliant results.
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