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 stand. The Union brigade at once charged and again put the enemy to flight. In the Battle of Osage James Dunlavey, a private in Company D, captured Confederate General Marmaduke, and Sergeant C. M. Young captured General Cabell on the same field. The loss of the Third Cavalry in this campaign was six killed and forty-four wounded. That portion of the regiment left at Memphis, under Colonel Noble, took an active part in the Grierson Raid, after which it went to Vicksburg in January, 1865. Soon after the entire regiment was reunited and moved to northern Alabama.

THE WILSON RAID

In March General James H. Wilson completed the organization of an army of about 12,000 men for an expedition into northern Alabama. General Edward F. Winslow commanded a brigade composed of the Third and Fourth Iowa Cavalry and the Tenth Missouri. The command left Chickasaw on the 22d of March and for about a week marched in a southerly direction through a very rough country. From Elyton to Selma, Wilson fought most of the way, gaining an important victory at Ebenezer Church on the 31st. He assaulted and carried the works at Selma on the 2d of April, capturing many prisoners and a large quantity of stores. Moving on the army entered Montgomery about a week later and raised the Union flag over the first Capital of the Southern Confederacy. Columbus was taken by assault in which Winslow’s Brigade bore the brunt of the battle. On the 20th, while moving toward Macon, news came of the close of the Rebellion. This expedition was one of the most successful of the war. It had moved over five hundred miles in the heart of the enemy’s country in thirty days capturing nearly 7,000 prisoners, two hundred and forty-one pieces of artillery and a vast quantity of small arms; laid waste granary of the South, demolished the iron works, factories, arsenals and armories upon which the Confederacy