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Ninth Regiment Cavalry
The regiment, having again been united at Covington, proceeded to Hick-man's Bridge, and participated in the expedition of General Burnside into East Tennessee, arriving at Knoxville September 3d, having skirmished at Loudon on the 2d. From Knoxville it proceeded to Cumberland Gap. On the 7th a detachment of the regiment drove in the rebel pickets, entered the Gap, and burned a large mill, on which the enemy depended to a great extent for subsistence. Loss of the regiment one killed and one wounded. On the 8th, the rebels, 2,500 strong, with 14 cannon, surrendered to the Union forces.
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