. Officers of the army and navy (regular) who served in the Civil War . material ofwar. Then followed the action at Middletown. In No-vember General Merritt was detached, with his division,to the east side of the Blue Ridge, by the way of AshbysGap, to operate against Mosbys guerillas. He was in command of the cavalry of the Army of theShenandoah, and participated in all the attendant actionsof 1865, resulting in the surrender of Lees army, andthen was designated as one of the three commissionersto carry out the terms. I Ie was appointed major-generalof volunteers, and was brevetted from major
. Officers of the army and navy (regular) who served in the Civil War . material ofwar. Then followed the action at Middletown. In No-vember General Merritt was detached, with his division,to the east side of the Blue Ridge, by the way of AshbysGap, to operate against Mosbys guerillas. He was in command of the cavalry of the Army of theShenandoah, and participated in all the attendant actionsof 1865, resulting in the surrender of Lees army, andthen was designated as one of the three commissionersto carry out the terms. I Ie was appointed major-generalof volunteers, and was brevetted from major to major-general in the regular army for his gallantry. At the close of the war he was appointed lieutenant-colonel of the Ninth Cavalry, and promoted colonel ofthe Fifth Cavalry, and served with much distinction innumerous campaigns and actions with Indians on thefrontier, and was finally rewarded with the appointmentof brigadier-general, U. S. Army, April 16, 1887, and is atpresent in command of the Department of Dakota. 2/4 OFFICERS OF FHE ARMY AXD XAYY (regular,. LIEUTENANT-COLONEL EVAN MILES, Lieutenant-Colonel Evan Miles (Twenty-fifth In-fantry) was born in McVeytown, Pennsylvania, March28, 1838. He entered the regular service as first lieu-tenant of the Twelfth Infantry August 5, 1861, and waspromoted captain January jo, 1865. He served at FortHamilton to December 3, 1861 ; and was on regimentalrecruiting service to June, 1862, when lie was returnedto duty at Fort Hamilton, New York, until August,[862. He was then ordered to the field, serving withthe Fifth Corps, Army of the Potomac, and was engagedin the battles of second Bull Run, Antietam, Fredericks-burg, Chancellorsville, and Gettysburg. He was then,with the regular division, sent to New York during thedraft riots of 1863. He returned to the field with hisregiment in November, 1803, and was placed on specialduty, in charge of a detachment of volunteer cavalry, toprevent marauding, and to arrest stragglers,
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