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10th Regiment Cavalry
What wonder that the eyes of all the people were directed to these great movements, and that few thought of the movements of a small division of cavalry, starting from East Tennessee, and destined to accomplish a service which in certain contingencies would have been of the greatest importance in the great tragedy of war then drawing to a close?
In the spring of 1865 General Grant, anticipating that if Lee should be forced out of Richmond he might undertake to move through southwestern Virginia, and, driving our forces out of East Tennessee, strive to establish himself in some of the many strong positions which that mountainous country afforded, directed General Thomas to send a force to destroy the railways, so far as possible, towards Lynchburg,
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