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Fourth Cavalry
On February 1st, 1863, acting under orders from General Jeff. C. Davis, with whom the cavalry command formed a junction at Eaglesville, Minty's brigade moved towards Franklin, reaching that point about noon on the 2d. After scouting the country in the vicinity of Thompson's Station, the regiment, in command of Captain Tolton, with the balance of the cavalry force, marched on the 3d in pursuit of the rebel Generals Wheeler and Forrest, who had recently made an unsuccessful attack on Fort Donelson. Passing up in the direction of that point the command captured Colonel Carroll and Major Rombout, of Forrest's staff,
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