. The photographic history of the Civil War : in ten volumes . ,,. CAVALRY TO (HARD THE DISTRICT OF COLUMBIA. Between June and December, 1863, just at the time that the Giesboro remount depot was established,four companies of the First District of Columbia Cavalry (A, B, C, and D) were organized. These com-mands were assigned to special service in the District of Columbia, subject only to the orders of the WarDepartment. The thousands of mounts at Giesboro were not many miles from the track of the Confederateraiders, and presented a tempting prize to them. But early in 1804 the District cavalr
. The photographic history of the Civil War : in ten volumes . ,,. CAVALRY TO (HARD THE DISTRICT OF COLUMBIA. Between June and December, 1863, just at the time that the Giesboro remount depot was established,four companies of the First District of Columbia Cavalry (A, B, C, and D) were organized. These com-mands were assigned to special service in the District of Columbia, subject only to the orders of the WarDepartment. The thousands of mounts at Giesboro were not many miles from the track of the Confederateraiders, and presented a tempting prize to them. But early in 1804 the District cavalry were orderedaway to southeastern Virginia, where they served with Kautzs cavalry division in the Army of the James,during the Petersburg and Appomattox campaigns. Colonel Lafayette C. Baker, in command of this cav-alry, reported an encounter with Mosby, to whose depredations their organization was chiefly due, on October22, 1863: Sir: This morning about ten oclock a detachment of my battalion, under command of MajorE. J. Conger, and a detachment of the Califor
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