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10th Regiment Cavalry
At Jacksonville Major Wagner, of the 15th Pennsylvania cavalry, was despatched to Salem, where he began the work of destruction and carried it on to within a few miles of Lynchburg. The balance of the command moved on to Christiansburg, where it arrived about midnight April 4th. The 10th Michigan cavalry was at once sent to the east to destroy the bridges over the Roanoke river, and the llth Michigan cavalry to the west to destroy the great bridge over New river. The next morning those bridges were effectually destroyed. The 10th destroyed six large, beautiful bridges over the Roanoke river, a destruction which would have been avoided could the events of the next ten days have been foreseen.
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