. Officers of the army and navy (regular) who served in the Civil War . During this period of servii e General Carroll partici-pated in the campaigns, battles, and skirmishes in WestVirginia and the Shenandoah Valley under GeneralsKelly, Lander, and Shields. Joining the Army of thePotomac in the fall of 1862, he participated in the Rap-pahannock campaign and was engaged in the battles ofFredericksburg, and afterwards in all tlie actions partici-pated in by the Second Corps until May 13, 1864. Hewas wounded while making a reconnoissance at Rapi-dan Station, just after the battle of Cedar Mounta
. Officers of the army and navy (regular) who served in the Civil War . During this period of servii e General Carroll partici-pated in the campaigns, battles, and skirmishes in WestVirginia and the Shenandoah Valley under GeneralsKelly, Lander, and Shields. Joining the Army of thePotomac in the fall of 1862, he participated in the Rap-pahannock campaign and was engaged in the battles ofFredericksburg, and afterwards in all tlie actions partici-pated in by the Second Corps until May 13, 1864. Hewas wounded while making a reconnoissance at Rapi-dan Station, just after the battle of Cedar Mountain in1862; also wounded at Mortons Ford February 6,1864; also wounded in the battle of the Wilderness,May 5 and 9, and again wounded at the battle of Spott-sylvania Court-House May 13, 1X64. He was appointedbrigadier-general of volunteers May 12, 1864. In Feb-ruary, 1S65, General Carroll was assigned to the com-mand of the Department of West Virginia for about sixweeks, then to the command of a division of the FirstVeteran Corps (Hancocks) in the Shenandoah Valley,. and afterwards at Camp Stoneman, near Washington,until August, 1865, when the division was disbanded. lie received the following brevets: Major, May 3,[863, f>r gallant and meritorious services in the battleof Chancellorsville; lieutenant-colonel, July 3, 1863, for gallant and meritorious services in the battle of Gettys-burg, Pennsylvania; colonel, Ma) 5, 1864, for gallantand meritorious services in the battle of the Wilderness,Virginia; brigadier-general, March 13, 1865, for gal-lant and distinguished services in the eight clays battlesin the old Wilderness and at Spottsylvania Court-House,Virginia; major-general, March 13, 1865, for gallantand meritorious services in the field during the war, andmajor-general of volunteers, March 13, 1865, for gal-lant and meritorious services during the war. In August, 1865, General Carroll was assigned to thecommand of the Military District in Virginia underGeneral Terry, wh
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