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Col Henry A Cole

7 February 2020

Major Henry A Cole led his battalion of the Potomac Home Brigade Cavalry in the breakout from Harpers Ferry on the night of 14-15 September 1862. His photograph is from C. Armour Newcomer’s Cole’s Cavalry: Three Years in the the Saddle in the Shenandoah Valley (1895), which is online from the Internet Archive.