. Personal and historical sketches and facial history of and by members of the Seventh regiment Michigan volunteer cavalry, 1862-1865 . iment came and asked me if I had anythingto eat. He said he presumed he was like all the rest of the com-mand, very hungry. Pretty soon he espied the pot and smelledthe chickens and wanted to know if that was mine; I told him itwas. He did not wait for an invitation, but got his knife andfork and began operations, remarking that he preferred hischicken rare and said the trouble with the boys was they cookedthem too much. After he had been eating some time he s
. Personal and historical sketches and facial history of and by members of the Seventh regiment Michigan volunteer cavalry, 1862-1865 . iment came and asked me if I had anythingto eat. He said he presumed he was like all the rest of the com-mand, very hungry. Pretty soon he espied the pot and smelledthe chickens and wanted to know if that was mine; I told him itwas. He did not wait for an invitation, but got his knife andfork and began operations, remarking that he preferred hischicken rare and said the trouble with the boys was they cookedthem too much. After he had been eating some time he saidif I had no objections he would go over and get the rest of hismess and we would all have a good square meal. I of courseacquiesced with his request, but when we were through therewas very little left. We soon continued our march and over-took the officers who took the darkeys rig, which they droveuntil the mules played out, when they left the carriage by theside of the road and I took it in tow and hauled it through toYorktown, where the General made the Commander of theFort a present of it. So ended our Raid to Richmond. 178. 1862. 1902. Geo. W. Dobson, Co. D. Litchfield, Mich. Born at Stainton, Durham County, England, September12th, 1843; enlisted at Kalamo, Eaton County, Mich., Septem-ber 1st, 1802, as Private in Co. D, 7th Michigan Cavalry;was wounded by having a horse fall on me the first day ofMarch, 1861-, near Richmond, Va.; taken prisoner the secondday of March, 1861, served part of the time at Belle Isle andthe other part in Hospital; paroled April 16th, 1864, and joinedRegiment July 20th, 1861; mustered out at Fort Leavenworth,Kansas, December 15th, 1865, and honorably discharged. 179 WITH GENERALS SHERIDAN AND CUSTER. OCT. 19, George W. Dobson. The evening of October 18th, 1864, I and a detail werewith Captain Jas. G. Birney at Winchester, Va., with new menand horses for the front from Dismounted Camp at HarpersFerry. As I was a friend of Captain Birney
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