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Fourth Cavalry III
Impartial history will do justice to the faithful soldier who has served his country and successfully led her armies during this her terrible struggle for life." The regiment, in command of Lieutenant Colonel B. F. Pritchard, remained at Gravelly Springs, Ala., during the month of February and part of March, 1865. During the early part of March preparations had been made for active service, and on the 12th the command broke camp at 12 P. M., and reached Waterloo on the 13th, crossing the Tennessee river at Eastport, Miss. It remained there until the 22d, and then commenced its march southward, over mountains, crossing rivers and creeks and through swamps, building miles of corduroy road, reaching the Black Warrior river on the 29th, and which was that day crossed by swimming the horses, losing one man and between thirty and forty horses.
American Civil War
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