. Personal and historical sketches and facial history of and by members of the Seventh regiment Michigan volunteer cavalry, 1862-1865 . >*& A 2 A 1893. 1864. Wm. II. FlSHKR, Captain Co. A. 1046 Warren Ave. W., Detroit, Mich. Born at Mansfield, Ohio, August 22d, 1838; enlisted atDetroit, Mich., September 11th, 1862, as private in 7th Michi-gan Cavalry; was promoted to Sergeant of Co. E, January24th, 1863, First Lieutenant August 1st, 1863, and to Captainof Co. A October 12th, 1864:; mustered out at Jackson, Mich.,December 15th, 1865, and honorably discharged. FIRST AND ONLY TWO DAYS PICKET D
. Personal and historical sketches and facial history of and by members of the Seventh regiment Michigan volunteer cavalry, 1862-1865 . >*& A 2 A 1893. 1864. Wm. II. FlSHKR, Captain Co. A. 1046 Warren Ave. W., Detroit, Mich. Born at Mansfield, Ohio, August 22d, 1838; enlisted atDetroit, Mich., September 11th, 1862, as private in 7th Michi-gan Cavalry; was promoted to Sergeant of Co. E, January24th, 1863, First Lieutenant August 1st, 1863, and to Captainof Co. A October 12th, 1864:; mustered out at Jackson, Mich.,December 15th, 1865, and honorably discharged. FIRST AND ONLY TWO DAYS PICKET DUTYDURING MY TERM OF SERVICE. By Captain W. H. Fisher. This may seem strange, but nevertheless true. The positionsand duties of the different offices I filled during my term ofservice were exempt from picket duty, and had it not so hap-pened I think my term of service would have been cut short. 86 If there was any one duty that I was actually afraid of ordetested that was Ticket Duty, especially at night. Whileyou may not believe it, I was no nighthawk, not when it cameto rambling around out in the fields and woods in the ene
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