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Ninth Regiment Cavalry
the 9th a very neat and finely lettered silk standard, with the United States arms on one side, and on the other that of the State, with the inscription: " Presented by the ladies of Coldwater." The flag passed through many hard battle-fields, but was carefully guarded and well defended.
It took the field when the cavalry arm of service was beginning to be appreciated. The day had passed when its service was confined to escorts, couriers, and orderlies at Division Headquarters, and when its movements to the rear indicated a coming battle at the front; when in ridicule the question, "who ever saw a dead cavalryman?" had become a byword. The day soon dawned at Gettysburg, where it fought as corps, by brigades and divisions; where the close hand to hand cavalry charges with sabre and revolver became more terible to the rebels than the far off crack of the infantry rifle.
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