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10th Regiment Cavalry
but more, I fancy, to give full effect to the sudden appearance of so large a body of cavalry in that portion of North Carolina, threatening Greensboro and Salisbury. The strategy was well planned and effective. The enemy was entirely deceived as to our point of attack. By a rapid march to the north General Stoneman found the railways running from Lynchburg to East Tennessee entirely at his mercy. At Hillsville, Colonel Miller, with 500 picked men, was sent to Wytheville, where he destroyed a depot of supplies, and on his march two important railway bridges.
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