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Second Regiment Cavalry
The regiment left its rendezvous, in command of Lieutenant Colonel Davies, on November 14th, 1861. Major Minty having been promoted to the lieutenant colonelcy of the 3d Cavalry, did not take the field with this regiment, Captain Godley being commissioned to fill vacancy. The 2d took the route to St. Louis, Mo., and on its arrival was stationed at Benton barracks, where Gordon Granger, then a captain in the U. S. army, who had been commissioned as colonel, assumed command. Soon after it joined the army under General Pope, and took part in the operations at and about New Madrid and Island No. 10, having skirmishes with the enemy at Point Pleasant, March 9th, and at Tipton on the same month
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