r epitaphs with gleaming sabres, need no encomiums nor recitals of their chivalrous deeds.
High up in the dazzling niche of fame and glory, they stand as peers of Ney, Murat, and Henry of Navarre.
Fought in many battles.
In all of the following named battles Company D figured conspicuously, and left some of its members upon nearly every field: Capture of Brigadier-General William S. Harney at Harper's Ferry in April, 1861; Falling Waters, Bunker Hill, First Manassas, Second Manassas, Mine Run, Catlett's Station, Auburn, Warrenton Springs, Seven Days battles around Richmond, First Cold Harbor, Second Cold Harbor, Hanover Junction, around McClellan, First Brandy Station, Second Brandy, Third Brandy, Stevensburg, Beverley Ford, Raccoon Ford, Slaughter Mountain, Culpeper, Trevillian, Weyer's Cave, Port Republic, Cross Keys, Front Royal, White Post, Winchester, Berryville, Charlestown, Halltown, Leetown, Shepherdstown, Williamsport, South Mountain, Hanover (in Pennsylvania), Gettysbu
Yancey M. C. Johnson, August 1, 1863, Second Lieutenant: Oliver M. Pike, July 15, 1863; Second Lieutenant; Calvin H. Wilborne, August 1, 1863.
Company M—Captain: Columbus F. Siler, May 2, 1863; First Lieutenant: James M. Robbins, May 2, 1863; Second Lieutenant: John M. Lawrence, April 25, 1863.
Under this organization, the regiment shared in the events of the campaign of strategy in October and November, 1863, on the Rapidan, and endured the cold and other privations in the affair at Mine Run, on the last of the latter month.
Going into winter quarters after that, there were no occurrences of much note until the opening of the great campaign in the spring of 1864.
MajorGen-eral Cadmus M. Wilcox had been assigned to the command of the division, General Pender having died of the wound received at Gettysburg, and this division with that of Heth, at the Wilderness, on May 5th, withstood and repulsed with heavy loss, every attack of Grant's forces on that memorable day. So severe h
riotism of; 43.
McAlpine, Major Charles R., 98.
McAlpine, Newton, 98.
McClellan, General, Geo. B., 295.
McClellan, Major H. B., 216.
McCreery, John Van Law, 110.
Magruder, General John B., 43.
Manassas, Battle of, 330
Marshall, Colonel, James, killed, 186.
Maple Leaf, Capture of the Federal Steamer, 165.
Mayer, R. B., 59.
Mayo, Colonel Robert M., 184.
Mechanicsville, Battle of, 329.
Meredith, Jaquelin Marshall, 187.
Mexican War, The, 59.
Miller, H. J., 171.
Mine Run, Battle of, 101, 336.
Minor, Lieutenant Robert D., 91.
Mission Ridge, Battle of, 95.
Monroe, General Thomas B., 58.
Morgan, General, John, Famous Raid of, 194.
Morgan, Colonel, Richard, 194.
Mosby's Men, Hanging of, by General Custer, in 1864, 109.
Morse, Captain, Edward, 225.
Murfreesboro, Battle of, 67.
Munford, General Thomas T., 132.
Murrah, General, Pendleton, 43.
Neimeyer, Colonel, Wm. F., killed, 101.
Newmarket, Heroism of the V. M. I. Cadets at 302.