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“SWEET WATER, TENN.,
October 23, 1863.
His Excellency President DAVIS:

. . . . My brigade has not been exchanged yet. I have or had sent to Fort Delaware 550 men from Big Black, Miss., and paroled at Vicksburg 800 men; many have died. Now if I could get the authority to turn the true men of my three regiments and my old Third Tennessee Regiment into mounted infantry, I could do good service for the Government. My opinion is that out of the seven regiments paroled at Vicksburg we will not get out of the enemy's lines more than three regiments, and they all would make a fine mounted command. . . .

I am, as ever, your obedient servant,
JOHN C. VAUGHN,
Brigadier-General. . . . “
(OR I, V31, Pt. 3, pp. 581/2)

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Vaughn’s Brigade was mounted ca November 1863 and titled thereafter as a Cavalry Brigade. However, most accounts list these units as Mounted Infantry. June, 1864 they were sent North into Virginia without their horses and first fought at Piedmont, Va., June 5. Subsequently, they served under Jubal Early on his Shenandoah campaign. They remained on foot through the Washington raid with their horses reaching them about July 22.

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