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Rh to the command of his brigade, and led it to Georgia, reaching the field of Chickamauga just at the close of the fight Lieutenant-Colonel McGlashan, then promoted to colonel, led his regiment in the storming of Fort Sanders at Knoxville, his brigade being in McLaws’ division and Longstreet’s corps. He also commanded his regiment in the battles of the Wilderness, Spottsylvania Court House, Hanover Junction, Second Cold Harbor, Petersburg (June 18th) and Deep Bottom (June 27th). At Cedar Creek, October 19, 1864, he led the right of Simms’ (formerly Bryan’s brigade), then in the division of Gen. J. B. Kershaw, and was shot through both legs. After a short absence he was again with his regiment on the line below Richmond, attached to Ewell’s corps, which on the retreat from Richmond, was cut off and captured at Sailor’s Creek. Just before the fall of Richmond, President Davis had signed the commission of Brig.-Gen. Peter McGlashan, this being, as Mr. Davis told Maj. A. H. McLaws, the last commission signed by him before the evacuation. General McGlashan was carried a prisoner to Johnson’s Island, where he remained until his release on parole August 25, 1865. Since the war he has resided in Savannah, Ga.