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U. S. Civil War
NINTH REGIMENT INFANTRY
to place a strong guard at the bridges near Murfreesboro, and Colonel Barnes of the 8th Kentucky Infantry to adopt a similar precaution near War-trace, and after bivouacking for the night on the Fayetteville road near Shelbyville, proceeded to Murfreesboro at daybreak on the 4th instant, by railway, with the 9th Michigan Infantry, halting at all the cross roads and throwing out patrols in both directions.
On reaching Murfreesboro at 4. 30 P. M., I learned that the enemy at noon had crossed the railway ten miles north of that place, tearing up the track and burning a quantity of cotton stored there; and that upon the arrival of the 1st Kentucky Cavalry,
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