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Ninth Regiment Cavalry
A correspondent wrote at the time:
" Though we have not been in any engagement as a regiment for several weeks, our losses have been very heavy of late. The country around us is literally filled with guerrillas and bushwhackers, who never lose an opportunity of surprising, capturing, and killing (murdering would be the more proper term), small parties of our men who venture outside our pickets. These devils in human form do not possess the honor nor the bravery of a true southern soldier, but, like the cowards that they are, seek for safety and protection in the dense forests surrounding us. When anything like an equality of men are sent to oppose them,
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