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TENTH REGIMENT INFANTRY
"It will be remembered that our corps (14th) had just completed a very tedious and most laborious campaign in northern Alabama, and were returning towards Lafayette, Rome, and Kingston, when we received orders at Kingston, November 8th, that they were to take part in the great raid which we have just completed. From Kingston we marched to Cartersville and rested a few days, and on the morning of the 13th marched towards Atlanta, which we reached at noon on the 16th, having totally destroyed all the railroads from Cartersville, by burning the ties and bending and twisting the rails. Our method of destroying railroads may be briefly told by saying:
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