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Fourth Cavalry III
Trusting in your valor, discipline, and armament, he did not hesitate to attack entrenchments believed by the rebel leaders to be impregnable, and which might well have caused double your numbers of veteran infantry to hesitate. Your achievements will always be considered among the most remarkable in the annals of cavalry." Colonel Minty, in his report of the part taken by his brigade in the assault and capture of Selma, says: " On the night of the 31st of March, I was encamped ten miles north of Montevallo, and on the night of the 1st of April I camped at Plantersville, having marched 45 miles on that day. "On the morning of the 2d I marched at 6 o'clock, taking the advance at the main Selma road.
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