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11th Cavalry
The command, consisting of some three thousand mounted infantry and a like number of cavalry, left Mt. Sterling, Kentucky, Monday, September 19. Six pieces of artillery, light mountain howitzers, accompanied us; rations and implements for tearing up railroad track were packed on mules. The expedition, though intending to be secret, still was so well known that the rebels made every preparation to meet us. When the command reached Salyersville, Kentucky, a woman mounted an excellent horse and sped on with the knowledge certain of our strength and whereabouts. The rebels thought we would enter Virginia through Pound Gap, and I think we should have done so had not they, in anticipation, blasted the rocks on each side of the road, completely obstructing it, and which would have taken a great deal of time to remove.
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