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11th Cavalry
Here we made very heavy captures, consisting of 75,000 rounds of "fixed artillery and 5,000,000 rounds of musket ammunition, 75 wagons, 6,000 blankets, 8 cannon, 33 caissons, large quantities of commissary and quartermaster stores, etc. It would be almost impossible to estimate the amount of property belonging to the Confederate government which we destroyed. "We also destroyed all the railroad buildings, railway stock, a high bridge, 800 feet span, one large brick church, and some private buildings which were occupied by the rebel authorities as storehouses. Colonel Brown sent a detachment of the llth Michigan Cavalry some ten miles beyond Wytheville, who destroyed an arsenal filled with ammunition, and burnt a long and very expensive bridge on the Virginia and Tennessee railroad over Red creek.
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