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owe and Samuel Savage (16th). To these should be added Col. William 0. Stevens, a Massachusetts man, commanding the 70th New York Infantry, described by General Revere, his brigade commander, as a truly splendid officer and magnificently brave. See his memoir in Harvard Memorial Biographies, I, 147. On the first day of the battle of Chancellorsville there took place a cavalry skirmish at Rapidan Station, Va. (May 1, 1863), when the only life lost was that of Lieut. A. E. Phillips of Chicopee, of the 1st Mass. Cavalry. The fight at Brandy Station (June 9), in which the 1st Mass. Cavalry took active part, was the first instance where the Union cavalry really showed itself the equal of a similar Confederate force. In the much more important cavalry battle of Aldie (June 17) the 1st Mass. Cavalry bore the brunt of the fight, charging through the town, capturing several prisoners and a battle flag, and holding the ground afterwards. Out of three hundred and fifty-eight who went