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march up the valley, meeting the enemy at Piedmont, on the 5th day of June, 1864. In this battle, Colonel Campbell, with his regiment, again occupied the left of the line flanking the enemy's right and attacking them in the rear, capturing twice as many of the enemy as he had men in his command. For gallant conduct and superior skill exhibited at this battle Colonel Campbell was breveted to a bridadier-general, a position doubly earned by long and efficient service as a brigade commander. Three days after this battle, when the forces under Crook joined those of Hunter at Staunton, Virginia, General Campbell was assinged to the command of the Third Brigade, Second division, and as a special favor the Forty-Fourth regiment was transferred to the same brigade, that it might be under its old commander. In all the engagements under General Hunter, while on the celebrated "Lynchburg Raid" General Campbell took a prominent part, and on the return from that place covered the retreat. On July 24, 1864, he took part in the battle of Winchester under Crook, and upon the fall of General Mulligan, in the battle, assumed command of the division, and participated in all the subsequent battles of Crook while the latter was in command, and after Sheridan came to the head of the department he took part in all the engagements of the Shenandoah Valley under that renowned chieftain, General Campbell was absent from his command but three weeks, when, in February, 1864, he was detailed by the Secretary of War to act as a member of a court of inquiry at Wheeling, West Virginia. With but one single exception he was with his command in every fight in which his brigade or regiment took part, from the time of its orgainization until he was mustered out of service, Septem-
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ber 3, 1864. After the close of the war, on the 17th of August, 1865, General Campbell was nominated by the Republican State convention of Pennsylvania as a candidate for the office of Surveyor General (now Secretary of Internal Affairs) and was elected for a term of three years. In 1868 he was re-elected to the same office, and served with great satisfaction to the people and with credit to himself. At the end of his second term in this office, he declined a re-election, and devoted his time and attention to mechanical and other undustrial pursuits until the fall of 1876, when, recognizing his ability, the Republicans of the Seventeenth Congressional district of Pennsylvania, composed of the counties of Bedford, Blair, Cambria and Somerset, nominated and elected him to represent them in the House of Representatives by a majority of 520 votes over the Hon. John Riley, democrat, who carried the district two years before by a majority of 1147 votes. In 1878 he was a candidate for re-election, but, owing to the organization of the Greenback party in the district, he was defeated by a majority of 305 votes. In 1880 he was again a candidate, and was elected by a majority of 1436 over his former competitor, Hon. A. H. Coffroth, and in 1882 he again defeated Coffroth. In 1884, he was elected to the Forty-Ninth congress by a majority of 3564 votes over Dr. Americas Enfield. When in Congress he served as a member of the Committees on Education, Labor, Railways, Canals, and others of a special character. In the Forty-Seventh congress he served as chairman on the Committee on Manufactures. He was an earnest advocate of the resumption of specie payment, and was opposed to the free and unlimited coinage of silver for the reason that 412 1/2 grains of silver were not worth a dollar in the market of the world.
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