The New York herald., 1876-07-07


'.sslss9 eri saotol SAN FRAScIsco. July q. 1876.
"a despatch from Virginia City reports great excite
mrnt At Custer death. A meeting has been called to
organize q company. hss ldf er.r
THE SEVENTH CAVALRY OFFICERS.
We give herewith sketches of the officers who com
pose the Seventh regiment cavalry seventeen Of them
being reported as Killed. Who the can
not be stated until further details hand.
MAJOR RESo.
Major Marcus A. Reno, comm anding the right wing
of the regiment born in Illinois He was a cadet
AT West Point from September !, 1851 to July l, 1851
when he graduated, ranking twenty in his class on
July 1857, he Was made Brevet second Lieutenant, Of
dragons, and served on frontier duty at Fort wala
wala, Washington Territory. in 1858 and 1852 scout
Ing. June IA, 1858, he commissioned Second
Lieutenant of drsgoons, and served until 1861 Fort
pales oregon, and at Fort Walla Wallu At the open
ing ofthe civil war he ordered the East and on
November IL, 1861, received commission as Captain
II the First cavalry During the years that followed
ne was engaged in the deences of Washington, D.. C.
IN January, February and March 1892 in the virgiua
DepipsulAr campaign tArmy of the Potomac) from
March TO August, taking part in the siege of York
.own, April TO May 4, 1862, the battle OF Gaines
Mll June % 1862; battle Of Glendale June 80 ls62
and the battle Of Malvern Hin July 1, 1867 He was
In command OF the First cavalry Army of the Poto-
macl in the Maryland campaign, In September and
0cloher, 1SG2 and engaged In the combat OF Cramp-
lons Gap, September IL 1892 battle OF Antsta Sep.
beInber II, lso2; skrmish at sharpsburg September
~. 1862, on detached October and Novem Der
lsG2 IN the Rappahannock campaign Army the Poto
acl Deccmb err 1s62 to March, lsS3 being also in the
scion vt Kelly's Ford, Va, March Ii, ls6a In tho
last action he disabled by INJURIES and breveted
Aajor FOR gallant and msritorious field
AS chief Of General W. D. Smiths slan, with the
Pennsylvania mIlrtis, he served from June
70 10 July IL, 1868, beIng engaged in a
kirmish At Hagerstown, Md, July TO- ls63
kfterward he served on The Rappahannock, in the
Army OF ths Potomac, IRON October, 1865 TO March,
1854 as Assistant IN the Cavalry Bureau at Washing.
ion d. C., March to May, 1854; as Acting Assistant
Inspector General OF the FIRST division of cavalry
corps IN the Army OF the Potomac during the Ricn
lpond campaign being engaged IN ,he battle OF HAnes
Shop, Nay IS 1884; battle OF Cold harbOr, May 81
and Juss a. 1864 battle Of 1revihsn station June H.
lxt, The action At Dsrbytown, July Is 1904,
rtous skirmlshes during June and July. During
Of I stan M the cavalry from Angus, . 1854
to J4nuary u. I, lsd5, being engaged IN the
sysviiis. August -; smitnacid, Angus, ~. isc.
A. ihe ba1tie OF Cedar Creek October 10, 1854.
n.r,sorIous services on July 20, 1895 be Was comms
stoned Colonel Of the Twelfth Pennsylvania cavalry
vemnwseA; In eng IN command of a brigade, from
ganukry Ialy ls65 he was In this capacity engaged
IN a skirmish at Harmony, Va, with Mosbys gueras,
March. 1895 akrom August to October. 1885. he was
Assistant Instructor OF Military Tactics at Military
Academy. In lso6 he was at New Orleans, in the
fr~edmsns Bureau, and on April, l. 1867, started for
oNfff0rnia with recruits On March 10. 1886, he
eomm ns,oned Brcvct Colonel and Brcvct Brigadier
general of United States volunteers for gallant and
neritorious services during the rebellion Major Reno
is the ony ore Of the officers now known TO be alive
LIEUTENANT W. W. COOKE.
First Lieutenant William w. Cooke Adjutant OF Gen.
era Casters regiment, was born in Canandagua, ".
". aud catered the United States volunteer army on
January 26, 1854, second lieutenant OF the Twenty
fodrth New York cavalry. He made FIRST heuten.
an June Is 1865, and maintained honorable
ord TIM usho the He entered the regular
tce - second heutepant IN the seventh regiment oi
-alry July ,s lSe6, and subsequently received the
commissions OF captain MAJOR and lieutenant
u ei volunteers On January l, 1871, he was
sioned as hrst Lieutenant and adJutant OF The
TENANT COLONEL T. W. CUSTER.
Colonel Thomas W. Custer, commanding
brother OF MAJOR General George A.
nin Ohio He received ms hrst com
rmy November S. 1854, as second
sixth Michigan cavsiry, and served
lS65 when he was mustered out by