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IN MEMORIAM.
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first lieutenant, Third Pennsylvania Volunteer Cavalry, Janu-
ary 24th, 1862, commanded at the time by Col. (afterward
brigadier-general) W. W. Averill, and was identified with the
magnificent record of that renowned regiment. With that
organization Treichel led the advance of the Army of the
Potomac in the advance to Manassas, and thereafter in the
Peninsular campaign was engaged in the siege of Yorktown,
the battle of Williamsburg and the seven days' fight before
Richmond.
On the eve of Malvern Hill Treichel and Ncwhall were
selected by General McClellan from a number of volun-
teers for special and hazardous duty in carrying dispatches
through the Confederate forces, and acquitted themselves of
this dangerous task to the satisfaction of their chief and the
admiration of the army. On September ist, 1862, Treichel
was promoted captain, and as such in March, 1863, took a brill-
iant part in the battle of Kelly's P"ord, where his former colonel,
Averill, then division commander, won the first real cavalry bat-
tle of the war, In this engagement a shell passed through the
body of Captain Treichel's horse, killing the animal of course,
and severely wounding himself. His indomitable spirit hastened
his convalescence and brought him back to the regiment in time
for the Gettysburg campaign. In the crisis of the celebrated
cavalry fight on the right flank on the third day of Gettysburg
he won immortal laurels by the charge he led, side by side again
with Captain Newhall, then brigade adjutant general, with but
sixteen men and three other officers, on the flank of Wade
Hampton's and Fitz Hugh Lee's brigades. In this charge
Treichel's horse was killed, and he received a severe wound,
which crippled his sabre arm for years. Every officer and
nearly every man taking part in the charge was wounded, and
Treichel, while disabled, was taken prisoner, but fortunately
soon elTected his escape. In October, 1863, upon his recovery,
he rejoined his regiment and was actively engaged in all the
operations of that fall and winter.
In February, 1864, he was appointed provost marshal of the
Second Cavalry Division of the Army of the Potomac, com-