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10th Regiment Cavalry
But by a rapid movement the command crossed the Watauga river farther up and struck directly across the mountains towards North Carolina. On the 27th we reached Boone, a little town far up in the mountains. At this place Major Keogh, of General Stoneman's staff, afterwards slain by the Indians In the Custer massacre, with a detachment of the 12th Kentucky cavalry, routed a company of home guards, capturing sixty. Here the brigades separated, General Stoneman, with Palmer's brigade, moving on to Wilkesboro by Deep Gap, while the other two brigades, with the artillery, moved to the same point by the Flat Gap road. At this point the command halted for a day, partly for, rest, partly because a sudden rise in the Yadkin river had placed it beyond fording;
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