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10th Regiment Cavalry
It was while engaged in the destruction of these bridges that I obtained a Lynchburg paper of the preceding day, (giving an account of the fall of Richmond. The train which brought the paper had heard of our approach and had gone no further than the station where we were at work. I at once sent the paper by the fleetest horse to be found hi the regiment to General Stoneman at Christiansburg, and was thus fortunate in giving him the first information that he had of the fall of Richmond.
"The main object of the expedition was accomplished. For a distance of 125 miles that railway so important to General Lee in case of his escape from Grant was in ruins.
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