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Civil War
Twenty Fourth Regiment Infantry
The expedition, consisting of the 5th corps, Mott's division of the 2d corps, Gregg's cavalry division, and eighteen pieces of artillery, all under command of Major General Warren, moved south on the Jerusalem plank road on the 7th, crossed the Nottoway river, and pushed on as far as Sussex Court house that night, and on the following morning continued the movement southward, but soon turning westward and reaching the railroad burned the bridge over the Nottoway, from thence moved slowly southward, destroying the railroad by burning the ties and bending the rails.
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