. Officers of the army and navy (volunteer) who served in the civil war . chers Run,and in the campaign terminating with Lees surrender atAppomattox Court-House, respectively. Colonel Brooke Rawle, while attached to the SecondCavalry Division (General D. McM. Gregg), was en-gaged in the cavalry battle of Brandy Station, Va., June9, 1863; in the running fight from Aldie, through Mid-dleburg to Upperville, June 21, 1863; fighting fromGoose Creek to Aldie, June 22, 1863 ; skirmish at West-minster, Md., June 30, 1863; battle of Gettysburg, Pa.,July 2-3, 1863 ; skirmishes at Fountaindale, Md., July
. Officers of the army and navy (volunteer) who served in the civil war . chers Run,and in the campaign terminating with Lees surrender atAppomattox Court-House, respectively. Colonel Brooke Rawle, while attached to the SecondCavalry Division (General D. McM. Gregg), was en-gaged in the cavalry battle of Brandy Station, Va., June9, 1863; in the running fight from Aldie, through Mid-dleburg to Upperville, June 21, 1863; fighting fromGoose Creek to Aldie, June 22, 1863 ; skirmish at West-minster, Md., June 30, 1863; battle of Gettysburg, Pa.,July 2-3, 1863 ; skirmishes at Fountaindale, Md., July 6,and Old Antietam Forge, Md., July 10; and action atShepherdstown, Va., July 16; while on a scout on Sep-tember 6, 1863, with seven men, was ambushed and sur-rounded on the Salem road near Warrenton by forty-eight men of Mountjoys company of Mosbys battalion,cutting his way through with a loss of three men, andhaving his horse wounded in several places ; was en-gaged in the cavalry actions at Culpeper Court-House,September 13, 1863, and near the Occoquan River, Oc-l5. tober 15, 1863 ; and in the battle of New Hope Churchand action at Parkers Store, Mine Run campaign, No-vember 27-29, 1863. During 1864-65, while attachedto head-quarters of the Army of the Potomac and head-quarters of the Armies Operating against Richmond,he was present at the battles of the Wilderness andSpottsylvania Court-House; skirmish at GuinneysBridge; battles of North Anna, Totopotomoy, and ColdHarbor ; siege of Petersburg ; battles of Petersburg Mine,Boydton Plank Road, Hatchers Run, and Fort Stead-man ; entered Petersburg early in the morning of April}, 1865, as escort of Generals Grant and Meade, and wasescort to General Meade at the surrender of GeneralLee, at Appomattox Court-House, April 9, 1865. Prior to discharge the Veteran Battalion of his regi-ment, to which he was attached, was consolidated withthe Fifth Pennsylvania Volunteer Cavalry, and he wasmustered out of service therewith and honorabl
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