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10th Regiment Cavalry
None of the reinforcements ordered reached East Tennessee in time to be of service. Outside of the garrison at Knoxville the troops available to meet the advancing army of Breckenridge, was an independent brigade of Tennessee cavalry, of three regiments, numbering about 2,000 men, and a small command at Strawberry Plains made up from different commands, a small portion of the 10th Michigan cavalry, a battalion of Kentucky cavalry, a section of artillery in the forts which our unwilling hands had constructed, but which we found to be very handy to have in case of emergency, and some scouts, hundred-days men, etc., numbering all told about 350 men. Gillem, -with his brigade, was posted at Bull's. Gap, about 40 miles above Strawberry
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