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132 General Ewell, also, in his official report of the Valley campaign, speaks of them in the following highly complimentary language:

The order of General Ewell, directing that one of the bucktails captured by the regiment should be appended to their colors, is as follows:

As soon as the Valley campaign was over the regiment was ordered to Staunton, to muster out two companies whose term of service had expired, and to receive a new company. They had not been there long before they were ordered to again join the main army, and took an active part in the Seven Days' fights before Richmond; after which they went to Charlottesville; from thence to Gordonsville, where, in August, 1862, they were mustered out of the service, some of the men joining new infantry companies