11th Cavalry

and started at 4 o'clock P. M. by the most direct road for Abingdon, at which place we arrived at about 11 o'clock P, M., and entered the city whose sacred soil had never been trod by the feet of armed Yankees before, with but little resistance. A portion of the command pushed on two miles beyond Abingdon, and took up a position effectually cutting Vaughn oft from the salt works, and compelling him to take a new road in the direction of Wythe-ville. At Abingdon we also captured a large quantity of quartermaster and commissary stores belonging to the rebel army, and vast stores of 'tax in kind,'awaiting shipment to the rebel capital; also, one piece of artillery, a good quality of ammunition (both artillery and musketry), one train of cars, one locomotive, and about fifty prisoners.

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