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Ninth Regiment Cavalry
Its December return notes its march towards Knoxville on the 6th, and a skirmish with the enemy on Clinch Mountain on the 7th, during a march of thirty miles. On the 10th, while on reconnaissance, it met the enemy two miles from Moores-town, and successfully engaged him, and on the 12th was occupied, with its brigade, in a sharp action near Russellville. The position of the regiment at Bean's Station was attacked on the 14th, and the command fell back towards Rutledge. The next two days the regiment, in command of Major Brock-way (Colonel Acker being wounded at Bean's Station), while acting as rear guard, was engaged in constant skirmishing near Rutledge. Later in the' month it was in skirmishes at Dandredge and Mossy Creek.
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