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Second Regiment Cavalry
The command marched via Connersville, Shelbyville, and Tullahoma to Winchester, thence by Normandy, Lewisburg, Shelbyville, Mooresville, and Tallerea to Florence, Ala., where it arrived on the 5th of October. On the 7th the regiment, in command of Colonel Thomas Johnston, who had been promoted to the colonelcy to rank from December 31st, 1864, engaged the enemy on Cypress river, losing 2 killed, 3 wounded, and 1 taken prisoner. Among the killed was Lieutenant Russell T. Darrow. A correspondent wrote as follows:
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