1st Pennsylvania Cavalry

Item DOC-8829

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Original Civil War document written in period ink.


Headquarters, 1st Pennsylvania Reserve Cavalry

March 6th 1864

Captain H. S. Thomas
A.A.S. General
1st Brigade, 2nd Cavalry Division

Captain,

In compliance with orders from Brigade Headquarters of the 5th inst., I have the honor to respectfully submit the following report of my Regiment for the month of February 1864.

Miles marched during the month
Two hundred and thirty-six (236) miles

Services required and rendered during the month.
Eighty-seven (87) men on picket and twenty-five (25) men on camp guard daily, during the month, two scouts made: one to Manassas Gap on the 17th ult., marching 60 miles in 23 hours; one to near Charlottesville, occupying from the 27th ult., to the 3rd inst., being engaged in rapid marching, most of the time and traveling a distance of 176 miles.


Very Respectfully,
Your Obedient Servant

D. Gardner
Lieutenant Colonel
Commanding Regiment