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Michigan Cavalry Brigade
The following-named staff officers particularly distinguished themselves: Major G-. A. Drew, 6th Michigan Cavalry, A. I. G.; Captain L. H. Barnhart, 6th Michigan Cavalry, A. A. A. G.; Lieutenant E. F. Norvell, 1st Michigan Cavalry, A. D. C; Captain E F. Decker, 1st Michigan Cavalry, A. A. D. 0.; Lieutenant G. S. White, 5th Michigan Cav alry, A. A. D. C.
" Surgeon Wooster, 1st Michigan Cavalry, was extremely attentive to the wants of the wounded, and discharged his duties with marked success."
Three of the battle-flags taken in the engagement of September 19th, at Opequan, near Winchester, were captured by men of the Michigan regiments; two of them by members of the 5th Cavalry, Sergeant Henry M. Fox, of Company M (commissioned afterwards as Second Lieutenant), who enlisted at Coldwater, August 12, 1862; Corporal Gabriel Cole, of Company I, who enlisted at Allegan, August 19, 1862; and Sergeant John Winter, company
and place of enlistment unknown.
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