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i. i UK! Lieutenant: George H. Gardin, May 11,

1863; Second Lieutenant : Samuel P. Talc, August i, 1863.

Company E Captain: Robert W. Cole, September 15, 1863; I-ir-4 Lieutenant: Andrew J. Busick, September 15, 1X63; Second Lieutenant: Oliver C. Wheeler, April 25, 1863.

Company F Captain ; First Lieutenant: David Kduards.

October 20, 1862; Second Lit utrnant: Shadrach G. Caudle, April

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Company (i Captain: ( ieorge A. Graves, May i, 1X62; First Lieutenant: Peter Smith. May 10, 1862; Second Lieutenant: Robert L. Mitchell, May i, 1862; Second Lieutenant: Martin H. Cobb, April 25, 1863.

Company H Captain: Thomas *T. Slade, October 23, 1863; I- irst Lieutenant: John K. Martin, May 25, 1863; Second Lieutenant: Mason T. Mitchell, April 25, 1863; Second Lieutenant: C. L. Graves, May 25, 1863.

Company I Captain: Gaston V. Lamb, July 18, 1862; First Lieutenant: Burwell W. Burkhead, July i, 1863; Second Lieutenant: Richard W. Winburne, August i, 1863; Second Lieutenant: Robert A. Glenn, August i, 1863.

Company K Captain: - , - ; First Lieutenant: ,

Second Lieutenant: E. J. Dobson, November 5, 1862.

Company L Captain: Lee Russell, , ; First Lieutenant:

Yancey M. C. Johnson, August i, 1863, Second Lieutenant: Oliver M. Pike, July 15, 1863; Second Lieutenant; Calvin H. Wilborne, August i, 1863.

Company M Captain: Columbus F. Siler, May 2, 1863; First Lieutenant: James M. Robbins, May 2, 1863; Second Lieutenant: John M. Lawrence, April 25, 1863.

Under this organization, the regiment shared in the events of the "campaign of strategy " in October and November, 1863, on the Rapidan, and endured the cold and other privations in the affair at Mine Run, on the last of the latter month. Going into winter quar- ters after that, there were no occurrences of much note until the opening of the great campaign in the spring of 1864. Major-Gen- eral Cadmus M. Wilcox had been assigned to the command of the division, General Pender having died of the wound received at Get- tysburg, and this division with that of Heth, at the Wilderness, on May 5th, withstood and repulsed with heavy loss, every attack of Grant's forces on that memorable day. So severe had been the struggle, that at night when requested by Heth to readjust the lines,