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Ninth Regiment Cavalry
The regiment had borne on its rolls 2,057 officers and men, and had lost 2 officers and 23 men killed in action, 3 men died of wounds, and 2 officers and 151 men of disease, being a total of 181.
"Oh! could from death but recover
Those hearts as they bounded before, In the face of high heav'n to fight over The combat for freedom once more!"
Notes.—General S. Atkins, Colonel of the 92d Illinois Mounted Infantry, who commanded the brigade in which the 9th served while on the Sherman campaign, said in a speech made at a re-union of his regiment in 1867, that in a book recently published in New York, edited by a southern lady, credit is given to his brigade for firing the last loyal shot at the rebels prior to the surrender of Johnston's army. This occurred in a skirmish in which the 9th Michigan was engaged at Morrisville, near Raleigh, on April 13, 1865, the day on which the latter place was surrendered to General Kilpatrick.
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