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division of Maj.-Gen. Joseph Wheeler's corps. During the Atlanta campaign he led his own regiment part of the time in Iverson's brigade of Martin's division, Wheeler's corps. In a report of the operations of the cavalry in the Georgia campaign of 1864, General Wheeler, after recounting the brilliant exploits and long series of triumphs of his troopers, among those whom he thanks for assistance names Colonel Crews, as brave and faithful. In a report of General Wheeler's, made on the 15th of April, 1865, concerning the campaign in the Carolinas, the distinguished cavalry general says: Generals Robertson, Harrison and Ashby, Colonels Crews, Cook and Pointer are disabled from wounds received in the same manner. He had just given a list of generals whom he had seen twice wounded while most nobly carrying out my orders upon the field. After this report, but before the final capitulation of General Johnston, Colonel Crews was promoted to brigadier-general. Brigadier-General Alfred Cum