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Ninth Regiment Cavalry
On the 7th a charge was made by the 2d battalion in command of Major McBride, at Cypress Swamp, and after a severe fight, in which it lost two killed, two wounded, and five missing, he was compelled to retire. In this charge fell the gallant Captain Frederick S. Ladd.
Advancing on the 8th and 9th in the direction of Savannah, skirmishing on the 9th, and continuing the movement forward on the 10th and llth, having a brush on the llth at Arnold's plantation, the regiment marched on the 12th to St. Catherine's Sound, communication was opened with the fleet on the 13th,
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