Second Michigan Cavalry
Subject: Furlough 1864
Source Article: "The Second Cavalry" (From Detroit Advertiser of Tuesday), The Hillsdale Standard (Hillsdale, Hillsdale, Michigan) 1851-1909, Tuesday, 03 May 1864, page 1 (digital image 1), Historical American Newspapers, Chronicling America, Library of Congress.
Summary with quotes:
About 350 troops of the 2d veteran Cavalry, arrived home (Detroit) on furlough, Sunday, "via the Southern Railroad." Some veterans came home in May with those on reinlistment furlough, due since the previous January when they reinlisted on the 5th. (After details about events in East Tennessee): "From thence till the 1st of February, the regiment was constantly on the move back and forth, till the 4th of March, when it was ordered to Cleveland, Tenn., where it remained till the 14th of April, at which time it left for home."
[Estimated date of arrival in Detroit: April 24 or May 1, 1864, depending on what was meant by the reference date of original publication in the Detroit Advertiser of "Tuesday"]
Officers listed on this furlough:
*Lieutenant Colonel—Benjamin Smith.
*Major—H. F. Nicholson.
*Surgeon—William Brownell
*Assistant Surgeon—J. A. Dunlap,
*Commissary—E. W. Lawrence.
*Company A—1st Lieut. W. Whittemore.
*Company C—1st Lieut. M L. Squiers.
*Company D—1st Lieut. H B. Rothbun.
*Company E—Capt. Vance; 1st Lieut. S. F
Dickinson.
*Company F—Capt. D. T Fargo.
*Company G—1st Lieut. Sam l Robertson
*Company I—Capt. Geoege S. Hodges.
*Company K—1st Lieut. Sanborn
*Company L—Capt. Bezaled P. Wells.
*Company M—2d Lieut H. M. Hempstead.
https://chroniclingamerica.loc.gov/lccn/sn85033637/1864-05-03/ed-1/seq-1/
