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11th Cavalry


We also burned the court house and all public buildings here, as they were used by the enemy as storehouses. We here found that we had flanked General Vaughn, who had been straining every nerve to get in our advance and join General Breckenridge at Saltville, and that he was trying to get around us by the valley road, running south of this place some four miles. Colonel Brown was ordered to take his command and cut him off. Getting in Vaughn's front at Paperville, Colonel Brown took a commanding position and awaited his coming; but Vaughn, learning of our whereabouts, took a road running still further south, and intersecting the Saltville road at Abingdon; but we were not to be out-maneuvered' in this way, and learning Vaughn's intention we abandoned our position

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