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Fourth Cavalry III
On the silver plate on the staff stand engraved the names of sixteen other battles in which this noble regiment has fought since the flag was finished. During the memorable campaign against Atlanta, among the battle-fields on the Flag, Stone river, Shelbyville, Franklin, Sparta, Middleton, Hover, Unionville, Liberty, Snow Hill, McMinnville, Lebanon, Chickamauga, Reeds' Bridge, Hill Creek, Chattanooga, Cleveland. On the silver plate?Rome, Kingston, Dallas, Powder Spring, Big Shanty, Kenesaw mountain, Chattahoochee, Covington, Stone Mountain, Lattimer's Mills, Flat Shoals, Lovejoy's Station, Jonesboro, and Atlanta, the whole number being forty, and this makes no account of the minor skirmishes which might be added, swelling this number to hundreds "A few words about this noble regiment and its gallant commander will hardly be considered out of place in this connection.
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