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10th Regiment Cavalry
On the 16th of November General Breckeuridge, with a large rebel force, made.his appearance in front of the garrison at Strawberry Plains, and on the 17th commenced a vigorous attack with artillery from the opposite side of the Holston river, at the same time threatening it in the rear with a heavy cavalry force.
Colonel Trowbridge, then in command of the troops in that vicinity, in a statement made since the war regarding the Breckenridge campaign in East Tennessee, says:
"In the fall of 1864, when Sherman, breaking loose from all his communications, had started on that great march to the sea, which was to crown him with immortal glory, and Hood, thinking to take advantage of this movement of Sherman,
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