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Fourth Cavalry III
The 4th Michigan cavalry, Colonel Minty commanding, crossed the Ohio river 1,200 strong at the time the rebel army under General Bragg was threatening Louisville in October, 1862, and participated in the military movements that drove the rebels from Kentucky. Making a hasty march from Crab Orchard to Munfordsville, it joined in the hunt after John Morgan, and followed that noted rebel and horse thief across the Cumberland river. When General Rosecrans advanced towards Murfreesboro, the 1st cavalry brigade, of which the 4th Michigan was then a part, and to the command of which Colonel Minty had been appointed, moved out in advance of "the center column.
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