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4th Cavalry
The regiment was in camp at Rossville, Tenn., from 1st to 13th February, when it moved in command of Captain Van Antwerp to Etowah, where it was engaged on scouting and picket duty. Van Antwerp and Lieutenant Hudson, with a detachment of the regiment, joined the 38th Illinois Infantry on a reconnaissance in the direction of Burk's Mills, arriving about daylight in advance of the infantry, and when within about two hundred yards of the mill discovered the rebel pickets, and advancing on them at a gallop drove them through a gap, capturing three. From this point Captain Van Antwerp sent Lieutenant Hudson with a detachment of thirty men towards Ellegis's Mill, and a non-commissioned officer with fifteen men to Cherry's Mill.
Michigan Cavalry
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