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Fourth Cavalry
The design of surprising Debrel's camp being thus frustrated, the command returned to camp. Information having been received on the 8th that Debrel, with between 800 and 900 men, was encamped two miles south of Sparta, the regiment, in command of Major Gray, moved at 2 P. M., as a part of Minty's brigade, which had been ordered on a scout to surprise and capture him. Proceeding by a circuitous route on what was known as the Mountain road, and after halting for an hour on the summit of the Cumberland, moved at 1 A. M. On the 9th, encountering the enemy's pickets at daybreak within five miles of Sparta, the 4th Michigan being in the advance, charged at a full gallop nine miles, engaging his main force four miles beyond Sparta,
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