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(Company A, Cole’s
Cavalry)
Lieutenant Colonel
George W.F. Vernon
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War Record
Entered the service as Second Lieutenant of
Company A, on August 10, 1861. Promoted to First Lieutenant,
May 10, 1862; Captain, October 25, 1862; Major, March 7, 1864;
Leutenant-Colonel, April 20, 1864. Severely wounded, on
January 10, 1864, at Loudon Heights, Va. Being shot in the
left eye during the midnight attack by Mosby's guerrillas. May
to October, 1864, assigned temporarily to command the
Dismounted Cavalry Brigade, consisting of Cole's Cavalry,
Maryland Volunteers, Twenty- Second Pennsylvania Cavalry,
Twenty-First New York Cavalry. He also commanded the same
brigade at the engagement at Leetown, Va. Detached from his
command and placed in charge of Provisional Brigade,
consisting of battalions from Eighteenth Connecticut Infantry,
Fourteenth West Virginia, Thirteenth Maryland infantry, and
One Hundred and Ninety-Fifth Pennsylvania Infantry, Department
of West Virginia, from December, 1864, to March, 1865.
Mustered out of service with his regiment, June 28, 1865.
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