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Civil War American
THIRTEENTH REGIMENT INFANTRY
Among the killed was its commanding officer, Colonel W. G. Eaton, who had been commissioned Colonel to rank from February 23d.
After the death of Colonel Eaton Colonel Culver was recommissioned and assumed command of the regiment retaining it until its muster out.
Pending the negotiations attending the surrender of Johnson's army the regiment was stationed on the Cape Fear river, twenty-six miles south of Raleigh, and on the 30th of April it started with the army homeward, reaching Richmond on the 7th of May, and Washington on the 19th, and on the 24th participated in the grand review of General Sherman's Army at the National Capital.
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