MMS 1638 - Perry Layland Correspondence
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Peregrine "Perry" D. Layland enlisted as a Private in Co.K, 156th Ohio Volunteer Infantry on May 2, 1864 and was mustered in May 15, 1864 in Columbus, Ohio. His company spent its first months in service near Cincinnati before being moved to Cumberland, Maryland at the end of July 1864. On August 1st, it was involved in a fight near Folck's Mills, Maryland with Confederate cavalry under Gen. John McCausland following the burning of Chambersburg, Pennsylvania. This letter contains a description of that fight which has the following notation in the Civil War Battlefield Guide, 2nd edition: Folck's Mill, Maryland (MD008)
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