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Fourth Cavalry
the command being destitute even of shelter tents, yet the 4th had marched about 280 miles, capturing 145 prisoners, including two colonels and 14 other commissioned officers. On the 19th the regiment, with the brigade, marched out on the Liberty pike, and on the morning of the 20th met Morgan's cavalry, charged them, and drove them six miles and two miles beyond Liberty, returning on the 21st to camp at Murfreesboro. From Colonel Minty's reports: "During this month, a picket consisting of a lieutenant and forty-one men of the 4th Michigan, was posted about three miles from Murfreesboro on the Manchester pike
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