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Second Regiment Cavalry
It had borne on its rolls 2,425 officers and men. Total loss of the regiment while in service, 338, as follows: Killed in action, 2 officers and 45 men; died of wounds received in action, 23 men; died of disease, 2 officers and 266 men.
" Forget not the field where they perished,
The truest, the last of the brave,
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All gone—and the bright hope we cherished Gone with them,
and quenched in their grave!"
Notes.—The following editorial was taken from the Detroit Tribune of April 8th, 1865: "Glorious Phil. Sheridan! So shouts in grateful pride the whole nation. A more gallant soldier never marshaled a column. If General Grant were to be denuded of praise for everything else, laudation should never grow cold that he has called into chief positions Of action men of the mold of Sherman,
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