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10th Regiment Cavalry
Next day reached Ball's Gap, and the day following at Greenville, where, at 2:30 P. M., the enemy was encountered one hundred strong. A brisk fight ensued, the rebels losing 24 killed, 14 wounded, 38 horses and mules captured, and 26 prisoners and 17 negroes; returned on the 31st to Strawberry Plains.
In June it met the enemy in skirmishes at Morristown on the 3d, Bean's Station 16th, Rogersville 17th, Kingsport 18th, Cany Branch 20th, New Market 21st, Mooresburg 23d, Williams's ford 25th, and on the 28th at Dutch Bottom.
Says Colonel Trowbridge in a report:
"I was ordered to go up near the Virginia line to capture a large number of horses that were said to be in pasture.
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