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History Of McLaughlin's Squadron Cavalry
M'LAUGHLIN'S SQUADRON CAVALRY.

    Company A, McLaughlin's Squadron of Cavalry, was raised in Ashland county. The
squadron consisted of two companies, A and B, which rendezvoused at Mansfield, and
left for the field commanded by Major William McLaughlin, a veteran of the Mexican
war, who gave his life in the service, dying from exertions and privations that his
advanced age was not able to support. His death occurred July 19, 1862, on the Big
Sandy river, Kentucky. His remains were sent home to Mansfield and buried with
honors of war. The squadron was intended to form a part of the Sherman Brigade, but
was detached from it at Cincinnati and was never with it in the field. Scouting,
forced marches and skirmishing with the enemy formed the greater part of the first
two years service of the squadron, during which time it served in Eastern Kentucky
against Humphrey Marshall's rebels, and operated with Garfield's regiment—the
Forty-Third Ohio—in the engagements of Middle Creek, Pikeville and Pound Gap; after
that it crossed the Cumberland mountains, burned Gladesville, West Virginia, and
captured a rebel regiment forming there under Colonel Caudle. In August, 1863, the
squadron left Eastern Kentucky and became a part of the Twenty-Third Army Corps,
marching to Knoxville, where it performed guard and picket duty, with a number of
heavy skirmishes. In the Atlanta campaign it was a part of Kilpatrick's command,
almost daily under fire, and sustaining heavy losses, particularly before Atlanta,
at Jonesboro and at Macon. Many of Company A veteraned in December, 1863, and were
furloughed home. After taking part in Sherman's last campaign the squadron was
consolidated with the Fifth Ohio Veteran Cavalry, at Raleigh, North Carolina, and
the consolidated regiment was mustered out at Charlotte, that State, November 1,
1865, receiving final discharge at Camp Chase, November 17th.


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1669 Two Hundred Years. 1865

THE MILITARY HISTORY OF OHIO.
ITS BORDER ANNALS, ITS PART IN THE INDIAN WARS, IN THE WAR OF 1812, IN THE MEXICAN
WAR, AND IN THE WAR OF THE REBELLION, WITH A PREFIX, GIVING A COMPENDIUM OF THE
HISTORY OF THE UNITED STATES, HISTORY OF THE DECLARATION OF INDEPENDENCE, SKETCHES
OF ITS SIGNERS, AND OF THE PRESIDENTS, WITH PORTRAITS AND AUTOGRAPHS.

ILLUSTRATED.

SPECIAL LOCAL DEPARTMENT, IN EDITIONS BY COUNTIES, GIVING A ROSTER OF OHIO'S RANK
AND FILE FROM THE COUNTY LN THE WAR OF THE REBELLION, REGIMENTAL HISTORIES, WITH
HISTORIES OF ITS G. A. R. AND LADIES' AUXILIARY POSTS, and CAMPS OF SONS OF
VETERANS.

H. H. HARDESTY, PUBLISHER, NEW YORK, TOLEDO AND CHICAGO.
1886.

[COPYRIGHTED.]
ROLL OF HONOR
OF OHIO'S RANK AND FILE FROM ASHLAND COUNTY IN THE WAR OF THE REBELLION





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