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Ninth Regiment Cavalry
'Can we catch them?' was the question on every tongue. Morgan was stealing every fresh horse over a belt of country ten miles wide, and we had to follow with horses we brought from Michigan, already fatigued by the forced marches of the last two weeks but we carried no baggage but a horse brush and feed bag, and we trod down the miles when the men literally ate their rations and fell asleep in the saddle. The last day we made nearly sixty miles, and came up to the rebels at six o'clock on the morn-ing of the 20th Thompson's (11th Michigan) Battery, under command of Lieutenant
Roys, held the advance, followed by the 9th Michigan Cavalry under command of Lieutenant Colonel Acker,
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