Lt. Augustus A. Dorsey, USA

1st Lieutenant Augustus Dorsey, Company K, 18th Pennsylvania Cavalry. Also served in the 2nd Regiment, Maryland Infantry, Potomac Home Brigade. Promoted to 1st Sergeant, date unknown. Promoted from 1st Sergeant to 1st Lieutenant, date unknown. Captured at Brandy Station on October 11, 1863. Held captive at Andersonville, Georgia. Paroled on December 10, 1864, at Charleston, South Carolina. Probably returned to regiment on May 30, 1865. Discharged by General Order on July 1, 1865 at Cumberland, Maryland. Filed for a pension on November 14, 1885, application number 554,119, certificate 717,367. Wife Ersula Dorsey filed for a widow's pension on August 7, 1924, application number 1,222,446, certificate number 953,948 from Kansas. Died in Conway Springs, Kansas. There was an obituary for A. A. Dorsey in the Wellington Daily News on July 4, 1924.

Dorsey, Augustus BATTLE UNIT NAME: 18th Regiment, Pennsylvania Cavalry (163rd Volunteers) SIDE: Union COMPANY: K
SOLDIER'S RANK IN: Private SOLDIER'S RANK OUT: Sergeant ALTERNATE NAME: FILM NUMBER: M554 ROLL 30 PLAQUE NUMBER: NOTES: General Note - See also Co. K 2 Reat. Ma. P.H.B. Inf.

Dorsey, Augustus BATTLE UNIT NAME: 2nd Regiment, Maryland Infantry, Potomac Home Brigade SIDE: Union COMPANY: K
SOLDIER'S RANK IN: Private SOLDIER'S RANK OUT: Private ALTERNATE NAME: FILM NUMBER: M388 ROLL 3 PLAQUE NUMBER: NOTES: none