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Second Regiment Cavalry
At this time the regiment, in command of Major L. S. Scranton, was serving in the 1st brigade, commanded by Colonel Campbell, 1st cavalry division, Army of the Cumberland.
From its camp at Winchester it proceeded on November 1st on a foraging expedition to Fayetteville, securing about 400 bushels of wheat, 65 head of beef cattle, between 500 and 600 sheep, and a number of horses and mules. Leaving Winchester on the 16th, the regiment moved, via Shelby-ville, Murfreesboro, and Milton, to Liberty, thence to Sparta, and over the Cumberland mountains and through Crossville, Kingston, and Knoxville, to Strawberry Plains, in East Tennessee, fording the Holston river, and arriving at its destination on the 17th of December.
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