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Ninth Regiment Cavalry
Crossing the Great Pedee river on the 6th, on the 7th it marched to Rockingham, burning a large factory at that point. Continuing the march on the 8th and 9th, the roads becoming extremely bad, it was found necessary to build considerable causeway and a bridge, the regiment working in the water all day, having slight skirmishes with Hampton's cavalry, and on the 10th it became heavily engaged with the enemy at Solemn Grove. Reaching within three miles of Fayetteville on the llth, passing through that place and crossing Cape Fear river on the 14th, participated in the attacks on the enemy in an entrenched position at Averysboro,
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