. Officers of the army and navy (volunteer) who served in the civil war . e, Chickamauga,Franklin, and Nashville. At Glasgow, Kentucky, on the evening of December24, 1 $C)2, the second battalion of the regiment, commandedby Captain F. W. Dickey, being on the march from Gal-latin, Tennessee, to Mumfordsville, Kentucky, the advanceguard, consisting of eight men of Company M, led byFirst Sergeant Hempstead, supported by Lieutenant Darrow with fourteen more men of Company M, onentering the town discovered the head of column of Gen-eral John H. Morgans raiders. The advance, composedof Breckenr
. Officers of the army and navy (volunteer) who served in the civil war . e, Chickamauga,Franklin, and Nashville. At Glasgow, Kentucky, on the evening of December24, 1 $C)2, the second battalion of the regiment, commandedby Captain F. W. Dickey, being on the march from Gal-latin, Tennessee, to Mumfordsville, Kentucky, the advanceguard, consisting of eight men of Company M, led byFirst Sergeant Hempstead, supported by Lieutenant Darrow with fourteen more men of Company M, onentering the town discovered the head of column of Gen-eral John H. Morgans raiders. The advance, composedof Breckenridges battalion of Kentuckians, was alreadyin possession, Company A, consisting of eighty-one men,being drawn up on the Main Street directly across ourline of march. Being ordered to go through by CaptainDickey, a dash was made by the company, when a run-ning fight ensued, scattering and driving from the townthe whole force, killing and wounding thirteen or fourteen,among the former Captain Jones of Company A, amongwhose effects was found his recent commission as major. in the battalion, and the muster-roll of the company. Thecommission was returned to his family at Crab Orchard,with family picture and other papers found upon him, andthe muster-roll now reposes among other trophies in theState Museum at Lansing. Company M lost one manand one horse killed, capturing three prisoners and fivehorses. The balance of the battalion, with the wagon-train, passed through without molestation. Quartermaster-Sergeant Hempstead was promoted tofirst sergeant Jul)- I, 1862; re-enlisted as a veteran Jan-uary 5, 1864; was mustered in as second lieutenantMarch I, 1864; captain, December 22, 1864; musteredout at Macon, Georgia, August 17, 1S65, receiving hisfinal discharge with his regiment at Jackson, Michigan,September I, 1865, after four years and seven dayscontinuous service. Returning to his old home at Marshall, Captain Hemp-stead was, in 1866, elected county treasurer of CalhounCounty, bei
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