. Personal and historical sketches and facial history of and by members of the Seventh regiment Michigan volunteer cavalry, 1862-1865 . General Phieip H. Sheridan, Dead. Born at Albany, N. Y., March 6th, 1831. Admitted toMilitary Academy from Ohio, July 1st, 1848; graduated June,1853, ranking No. 31 in a class of 52. Was appointed BrevetSecond Lieutenant, 1st Infantry, U. S. A., July 1st, 1853;Second Lieutenant, 4th Infantry, U. S. A., November 22d,1854; First Lieutenant, 4th Infantry, U. S. A., March 1st,1801; Captain, 13th Infantry, U. S. A., May 14th, 1861; Col-onel, 2d Michigan Volunteer C
. Personal and historical sketches and facial history of and by members of the Seventh regiment Michigan volunteer cavalry, 1862-1865 . General Phieip H. Sheridan, Dead. Born at Albany, N. Y., March 6th, 1831. Admitted toMilitary Academy from Ohio, July 1st, 1848; graduated June,1853, ranking No. 31 in a class of 52. Was appointed BrevetSecond Lieutenant, 1st Infantry, U. S. A., July 1st, 1853;Second Lieutenant, 4th Infantry, U. S. A., November 22d,1854; First Lieutenant, 4th Infantry, U. S. A., March 1st,1801; Captain, 13th Infantry, U. S. A., May 14th, 1861; Col-onel, 2d Michigan Volunteer Cavalry. May 25th, 1862; Brig-adier General of Volunteers, July 1st, 1862; Major General ofVolunteers, December 31st, 1862; Brigadier General, U. S. A.,September 20th, 1864; Major General, U. S. A., November8th, 1864, for personal gallantry and military skill at the Battleof Cedar Creek, Va., October 19th, 1864; Lieutenant General,U. S. A., March 4th, 1800. Commander in Chief of U. in 1879. Died at Washington, D. C, August 5th, 1888. 14. Major General Hugh Judson Kilpatrick. Dead. Born at Deckerstown, N. J., January 14th, 1836. Admit-ted to West Point from New Jersey in 1856; graduated andcommissioned as follows: Second Lieutenant, May 6th, 1861,1st Artillery, U. S. A.; Captain of 5th New York Volunteers,May 9th, 1861. Was wounded at Big Bethel, Va., June , he was appointed Lieutenant Colonel of the SecondNew York Cavalry and Colonel of the same in December, took part with his Regiment in the campaign of the Armyof the Potomac in 1862, and in the Stoneman Raid in the Springof 1863, when he commanded a Brigade. He was made Brigade General, June, 1863, and took com-mand of the 3d Division of Cavalry Corps, Army of the Poto-mac, at Frederick, Md., and continued in command until orderedto report to General Shermans army. February 25th to March 15 4th he made his famous raid with 5,000 Cavalry around Gen-eral Lees entire army. Soon after the raid in 1864
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