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Fourth Cavalry III
Thence by a blind woods road, through an almost unbroken waste of pine forest for a distance of 18 miles in a southwesterly direction to Irwinsvilie, which was reached about 1 o'clock on the morning of the 10th inst. Here passing my command as Confederate, and inquiring for' our train,' representing that we were a rear guard left to fight back the Yankees, etc., I learned from the inhabitants that a train and party meeting the description of the one reported to me at Abbyville had encamped about dark, the night previous, about 11/2 miles out on the Abbyville road. I at once turned the head of my column in that direction, impressing a negro for a guide. After moving to within 11/2 miles of camp I halted under cover of a slight eminence, dismounted 25 men and sent them, under command of Lieutenant Purinton, to make the circuit of the camp
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