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 516 HISTORY OF GOODHUE COUNTY .Major Martin Magiimis. enrolled August 13, 1864. as quarter- master; promoted major September 13, 1861: discharged with regiment. TENTH INFANTRY. The 10th Infantry was organized in August. 1862. Stationed at frontier posts until June, 1863, when ordered upon Indian expedition. Engaged with the Indians July 24, 26 and 28, 1863. Ordered to St, Louis. Mo., October, 1863, thence to Columbus, Ky., April. 1864. thence to Memphis, Term., June 1864, and as- signed to the 16th army corps. Participated in the following battles, marches, sieges and skirmishes: Battle of Tupelo, July L3, 1865; Oxford expedition, August, 1864. Marched in pursuit of Price from Brownsville, Ark., to Cape Girardeau, thence by boat to Jefferson City, thence to Kansas state line, thence to St. Louis. Mo. Battles of Nashville. Teim.. December 15 and 16, 1864; Spanish Fori and Fori Blakely, April. 1865. Discharged at Fori Snelling Augusl 1!». 1865. The commissioned officers from Goodhue county were: Company D, Captain William W. Phelps, enrolled September S. 1862: resigned November 8, 1862. First Lieutenant Charles L. Davis, enrolled August 27, 1862; pro- moted captain February Li. 1864; discharged with the regiment. Second Lieutenanl William B. Williams, enrolled September 8, 1862; promoted firsl lieutenant February 16, 1864; discharged with the regiment. Goodhue county had one soldier in Company A ami seventy in < lompany D. FIRST MOUNTED RANGERS CAVALRY. 'Jin lsl .Mounted Rangers Cavalry was organized in March, 1863. Stationed among frontier posts until May, 186:!. when ordered upon Indian expedition. Engaged with Indians on July 24. 2(i and 28, 1863. Stationed at frontier posts upon return of expedition until mustered out, between October 1, 1863 and De- cember 30, 1863. The commissioned officer from Goodhue county was Major John II. Parker, commissioned November 20, 1862; discharged with the regiment. BRACKETT'S BATTALION CAVALRY. i Originally, the first, second and third companies of this cav- alry organized October and November, 1861. Ordered to Ben- ton Barracks. Mo., December, 1864. Assigned to a regiment .ailed Curtis' Horse. Ordered to Fort Henry, Tenn., February, 1862. Names of regiment changed to 5th Iowa Cavalry, April, 1862. as companies G, D and K. Engaged in the siege of Corinth, April, 1862. Ordered to Fort Herman, Tenn., August, 1862. Vet-