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Herndon
Station Raid
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Federal
Soldiers Captured by Mosby's Men at
Herndon
Four
officers and 21 enlisted men of the
First
Vermont Cavalry
were
captured at Herndon Station.
The
most famous among them was
Major
William
Wells,
who later went on to win the
Congressional Medal of
Honor.
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Officers:
Major
William Wells (biography)
Capt. Robert Schofield (Co. F)
(view
picture online)
2nd Lt. Alexander G. Watson (Co. L)
2nd Lt. Perley C.J. Cheney (Co. C)
(view
picture online)
Enlisted
men:
Pvt.
Joseph Armstrong (Co. M)
Pvt. Homer E. Bliss (Co. A)
Pvt. Otis H. Brainerd (Co. L)
Pvt. Edwin B. Brewer (Co. B)
Pvt. George Brown (Co. M)
Pvt. Hiram A. Dean (Co. M)
Pvt. Frank Doyle (Co. M)
Pvt. Albert H. Drury (Co. L)
Pvt. Charles Erwin (Co. L)
Sgt. Willard Farrington (Co. L)
Pvt. Albert Girardeau (Co. L)
Pvt. Benjamin Gordon (Co. M)
Pvt. Lester Green (Co. A)
Pvt. Charles D. Harvey (Co. L)
Pvt. Horace N. Irish (Co. L)
Pvt. William Labonty (Co. M)
Corp. Michael Quinlan (Co. A)
Pvt. Leonard Sartwell (Co. M)
Pvt. Henry E. Sweet (Co. A)
Pvt. William Watson (Co. L)
Pvt. Curtis Woodward (Co. L)
Click
here to read a short history of the First
Vermont
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