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10th Regiment Cavalry
while he remained with the balance of the brigade at Salem. The 15th Pennsylvania met with marked success on its expedition. It broke the railway between Greensboro and Danville as directed, and on its route surprised a South Carolina regiment of cavalry, making prisoners of its commanding officer and a large number of the men. The battalion of the 10th Michigan sent to High Point, succeeded in capturing two railway trains, loaded with quartermaster, commissary, and medical supplies, some large depots of supplies, and several thousand bales of confederate cotton. The value of the property destroyed by this detachment was estimated at more than three millions of dollars.
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