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4th Cavalry
heavy skirmishing ensued and continued until dark; then fell back and bivouacked, having captured 15 from the rebel mounted picket, losing 1 killed and two wounded, Captain Lawton being among the wounded. On the 25th, marched within three miles of Dallas. Colonel Minty says: " On the 23d of May, 1864, during the Atlanta campaign, as we approved Dallas, Ga., the 4th Michigan had the advance, Captain G. W. Lawton o? Company C commanding the advance guard. I was riding alongside of him when fire was opened by the enemy, and he received a ball through the upper portion of the right lung He at once turned to his men and gave the order, ' left front into line,' and got his company into position and out of the direct line of fire before I knew that he had been wounded.
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