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10th Regiment Cavalry
Nearly every bridge and trestle for that distance had been totally destroyed or entirely disabled. Well might General Thomas say, ' A railroad was never more thoroughly dismantled than was the East Tennessee and Virginia from Wytheville to near Lynchburg.'
"After a short rest we were ordered to move by Rocky Mount to Martinsville, and there await the arrival of the balance of the brigade. Our time was short and we made the distance of 75 miles in 27 hours to find the place occupied by Colonel Wheelers cavalry, where we were to await the brigade. Under the circumstances we could not well remain there with that party in the town, and therefore to their great astonishment we insisted on then: going.
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