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��HISTOEY OF KICHLAND COUKTY.

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��attached to the Ninth Army Corps, and afterward attached to Sheridan's army corps, with which it did effective work. It participated in several battles in the eastern division of the arm}', and made several ver}' gallant raids nnder Gen. Sheridan. It was at the capture of Gen. Lee's forces and gained many trophies of war. After the grand review at Washington, it was sent to St. Louis in June, 1865, and from there to

��Springfield, Mo., where it was detained until about the 1st of September.

It then returned to St. Louis, received its papers, proceeded to Columbus, Ohio, where it was discharged and paid ofl' September 11, 1865. The Second Cavahy has one of the best arm}' records of an}- regiment in the field, and lost many of its best men, whose graves form a vidette line half across the continent.

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