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4th Cavalry
The casualties in Minty's brigade during the campaign, ending in the occupation of Atlanta, were 2 officers and 44 men killed, 6 officers and 106 men wounded, and 7 officers and 83 men missing. The regiment arrived at Lithonia on the 21st of August, having made a circuit around Atlanta and been in the saddle and almost constantly engaged since its departure from Sandtown on the 18th, the marches having been made over roads that had become very rough from heavy rains. From Lithonia the regiment returned to Sandtown. Colonel Minty says in a letter written at Sandtown, Ga., under date of August 29th, 1864:
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