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Fourth Cavalry
One battalion detached as train guard proceeded on a direct road, the main force taking a circuitous route to the right. When about two miles beyond Sparta, at 3 P. M., the 7th Pennsylvania ran into the enemy's pickets. Major Gray was directed to support the 7th, Captain Grant, with the 1st Battalion dismounted, was ordered to the left. Major Gray with the 3d Battalion moved on toward a bridge, where the regiment was almost instantly repulsed the week previous. Here again the enemy, having secured a fine position, poured a volley into the advancing column. The whole brigade was soon more or less engaged, and constant fighting was kept up on both sides until dark, when the enemy retired and the brigade bivouacked for the night.
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