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Michigan Cavalry Brigade
Lay their swords by their sides, they have served them too well
Not to rest near their pillows below; To the last moment true, from their hands ere they fell, Their points were still turned to a foe."
After the surrender of Lee, the brigade, in command of Colonel Stagg, moved with the cavalry corps to Petersburg, Va., where it remained for a short time, and then went with the army into North Carolina; from thence it marched to Washington, and there participated in the "grand review of the armies on the 23d of May, 1865.
Immediately thereafter it was ordered west, and proceeded via the Baltimore and Ohio railroad and the Ohio and Mississippi rivers to Fort Leavenworth, where the 5th and portions of the other regiments were mustered out of
service.
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