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U. S. Civil War
NINTH REGIMENT INFANTRY
On the 28th of May the command, consisting of about five thousand men, commenced the march, and on reaching Winchester, June 3d, dispersed a small force of the enemy, capturing several prisoners. On the same day he made a forced march of twenty miles over a rugged and almost impassable mountain road, capturing the enemy's pickets at Sweeden's Cove, completely surprising General Adam's command of rebel cavalry encamped at the foot of a mountain. After a hand to hand fight in a narrow lane and on broken ground the enemy was routed with a loss of twenty killed and double that number wounded. Fleeing in great confusion and disorder, throwing away their arms and equipments, leaving their ammunition and commissary wagons, they did not stop their flight until they reached Chattanooga, forty miles distant.
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