History of Oakland County Michigan a narrative account of its historic progress, its people, its principal interests / compiled from the official records of the county, the newspapers and data of personal interviews, under the editorial supervision of Thaddeus D. Seeley.

HISTORY OF OAKLAND COUNTY

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days' chase resulted in the rout of the Confederate leader at Buffington
Island, in the Ohio river, July Igth of that year. The Union troops captured 573 prisoners, 487 horses and mules and a large quantity of arms,
but Morgan himself avoided capture for a week. A detachment of the
regiment in charge of Lieutenant Boynton led a force commanded by
Major Rue, of the Ninth Kentucky Cavalry, which captured the famous
rebel cavalryman near New Lisbon, Ohio, on the 26th of July, I863. The
Eighth was raised by Colonel John Stockton, who commanded it until
his health failed. During the war it was opposed by such brilliant leaders
as Forrest and Wheeler and invariably held its own against them. Its
achievements are most conspicuous while checking the advance of Longstreet's army and in the defense of Knoxville. One of its last engagements was that of November 28, I864, at Duck Creek, Tennessee, where
the Eighth Michigan and the Fourteenth and Sixteenth Illinois Cavalry
dismounted, fixing bayonets and charged through the surrounding enemy,
driving one hundred of the rebels into the river. In the following month,
followed the engagements around and in front of Nashville, lasting from
December I4th to 22d, the decisive battle between Hood and Thomas
being fought on the I5th and i6th.
NINTH AND TENTH CAVALRY REGIMENTS
Oakland county contributed over one hundred men to the Ninth and
Tenth Cavalry. The former was the only regiment in this branch of the
service which had the honor of accompanying Sherman in his entire
march from Atlanta to the sea, composing the escort of General Kilpatrick when he opened communication between the army and the Atlantic
coast. The Ninth also bore a conspicuous part in the pursuit and capture
of General Morgan in his raid through Indiana and Ohio.
The operations of the Tenth Cavalry were mainly in Tennessee and extended from January, I864, to April, I865, the last three months of service being in North Carolina and Virginia. The regiment left Grand
Rapids in December, 1863, in command of Colonel Thaddeus Foote, and
was afterward led by Lieutenant Colonel L. G. Trowbridge. Among
the officers contributed by Oakland county was James H. Cummins, who
joined the Tenth as first lieutenant of Company L; was promoted to be
captain April I, I864; and was breveted major of United States Volunteers March 13, 1865, for capturing with one battalion at High Point,
North Carolina, on April Io, 1865, $3,ooo,ooo worth of property and destroying it.
MICHIGAN LIGHT ARTILLERY
The regiment of Michigan Light Artillery was composed of twelve
six-gun batteries, and was commanded by Colonel L. C. Loomis; but from
the character of that arm of the service the batteries were never brought
together as a regiment. About a hundred men were scattered through its
several batteries-A, C, D, G, H, I, L and M-and also through the
First, Fourth, Fifth, Eighth, Thirteenth and Fourteenth. Battery A, the
first to leave the state, was originally designated Loomis's. It departed
for western Virginia, under Colonel Loomis, on July I, I86I, first engag