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Ninth Regiment Cavalry
becoming engaged at Salkehatchie on the 6th, and at White Pond on the 9th. Moving towards Aiken on the llth, the command was engaged with Wheeler's and Hampton's cavalry, and on their being reinforced by infantry, the command retired after a sharp fight, the regiment covering the rear. On the 12th was engaged in skirmishing during the entire day and night, reaching the South Fork of the Edisto the next day, and during the night of the 14th marched to the North Fork of that river and had brush with the enemy within ten miles of Lexington on the 15th. Reaching that point on the 16th, it was ordered across the Saluda, river to reinforce a picket post.
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