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4th Cavalry
When we take into consideration the fact that the rebels had to entire divisions actually engaged, supported by a third and that I had only three regiments and a half on the ground, while only the 4th Michigan and a portion of the 7th Pennsylvania were engaged I think all will allow that the results are most gratifying. I see in some of the Michigan papers that the ladies of Flint have a spendid standard prepared for the Old Fourth. I think I can promise that it will never be disgraced in their hands. The regiment was in camp on the left flank of the army near Kenesaw mountain, on July 1st, 1864, and on the 3d with the brigade and division inarched in the direction of Big Shanty, where possession was taken of the works evacuated by the Army of the Tennessee.
Michigan Cavalry
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