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Michigan Cavalry Brigade
referred to, and sufficient were received to fully establish the following facts:
1st—That the movement of the Cavalry Brigade from St. Louis to Fort Leavenworth, and thence across the plains, was a hardship inflicted upon the officers and men thereof which, in view of the war having been ended, and in consideration of their long and faithful services, should have been spared them, deserving, as they certainly were, of a muster out at least at as early a day as any other troops in the service.
2d.—That the action of Major General Pope, in ordering the breaking up and consolidation of the regiments, was wrong, unauthorized, and contrary to an existing regulation circular of the War Department, with which he is presumed to have been familiar at the time.
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