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Organizations
Company L not having been organized until December, 1862, did not participate in the engagements prior to August 25, 1863.
From a report of the Adjutant General, State of Missouri: "In August, 1861, Lewis Merrill, Captain 2d Cavalry, V. S. Army, received authority from General Fremont to organize and concentrate a cavalry regiment at Benton Barracks, St. Louis, Missouri, for immediate service in the field. At this particular juncture recruiting for the United States service was of a slow and tedious nature. Other officers had received similar authority, and after a short effort abandoned the project as impracticable. Captain Merrill, with his characteristic determination to succeed in all his endeavors, recruited and enlisted over eight hundred men in less than one month,
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