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Fourth Cavalry III
consisting of five general officers, three hundred and seventy-four other commissioned officers, and nineteen hundred and ninety-four men, with sixty-two pieces of artillery, together with large and important arsenals, foundries, and machine shops. At that point the notice of the surrender of the rebel armies having been received, the further progress of the command was terminated. Major General Wilson, commanding, in his congratulatory order, under date of Selma, Ala., April 7th, 1865, says of the 2d division, to which the 4th Michigan belonged: " Selma lay before you, surrounded by two lines of entrenchments, the outer one continuous, flanked by impassable swamps, covered by stockades, and defended by seven thousand troops, under the command of Lieutenant General Forrest.
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