CHAPTER XIII.
PATRIOTISM OF SHELBY AND MOULTRIE COUNTIES.

TWELFTH CAVALRY REGIMENT
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     This regiment was organized in February, 1862, at Chicago.  Arno Vass was its first colonel; it formed a part of the grand army of the department of the Mississippi, and, in pursuance of general orders issued March 2d, 1865, it was consolidated into an eight company organization.  Hasbrock Davis became colonel.
     Jacob Wetzel of Shelby county, was a member of this regiment and was mustered out May 28, 1865, as bugler.

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