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Fourth Cavalry
The 4th Michigan being ordered to the front, the rebels fell back, but the flanking parties on the right and left reported that a heavy column was moving down on each flank. Minty doubled his pickets and remained in position until 9 o'clock, when he fell back towards Beard's Mills, and next morning resumed the march to Murfreesboro, having lost 1 killed in action and 1 by accident. Minty says in a report: " With a couple of pieces of artillery?which he had not?-he would have given battle to Morgan at Alexandria, but without them he felt that he would have been fighting at too great a disadvantage and use- MICHIGAN IN THE WAR. 651 lessly sacrificing the lives of his men; he therefore considered it his duty to retire."
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