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4th Cavalry
After fighting as long as he possibly could, he swam the Chickamauga and brought in his squadron, with no casualties bat 1 man and 1 horse slightly wounded." On the 30th of September the regiment, in command of Major Horace Gray, having been ordered to Cotton's Perry, on the Tennessee river, to support a battalion of U. S. cavalry, it was attacked and driven back by a large body of Wheeler's rebel cavalry, who had crossed the river. Here Lieutenant Edward Tucker was mortally wounded, and died at Chattanooga on the 7th of October following. In addition the regiment lost 2 wounded and 1 missing, together with 1 horse wounded. In the month it had marched 224 miles.
Michigan Cavalry
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