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Fourth Cavalry III
Pushing forward towards Flint River with a view to saving the double bridges on the Macon road, marching all night it reached there at 6 A. M. on the 18th, where a gallant sabre charge was made by one battalion of the 4th Michigan, in command of Captain Charles T. Hudson, carrying the bridges, and taking prisoner every man of the rebel battalion which had been left to destroy them, including two majors and nine other commissioned officers. On the 20th, the 2d division, to which, the regiment was attached being in the advance, after marching 27 miles found the enemy and drove him rapidly for eighteen miles. At about 6 P. M. the advance regiment entered Macon at the gallop, surprising a battalion of rebel cavalry, and receiving the unconditional surrender of Major General Howell Cobb, with his entire force,
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