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Fourth Cavalry III
On a silver plate on the staff was engraved: "Presented to the 4th Reg't Mich, cavalry by the friends of the Flint "boys." "Blessings on our gallant 4th. Victory o'er every foe." A correspondent wrote: " One of the cavalry camps near the fort on Shelby street (Louisville) was the scene of a very pleasant reunion on the 16th inst. (November, 1864). The 4th Michigan cavalry, Colonel E. H. G. Minty's old regiment, after two years and three months of uninterrupted hard service at the front, had been sent here to remount. On the occasion referred to the Colonel, in behalf of the friends or the regiment in Flint, Michigan, presented his war-worn troopers with a stand of colors?the gift of the ladies of Flint.
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