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It remained here some two months. At last the decimated ranks were filled and, on the morning of February 8, 1864, the regiment bade a second good bye to friends, and amidst their prayers for success and a safe return departed for the front, determined to die for the flag if necessary, and, after a tedious ride of many weary miles arrived at Bridgeport, Alabama, via Louisville, Nashville, and Murfreesboro, where it went into winter quarters and remained until the opening of the spring campaign of 1864.
