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11th Cavalry
Had the rebels ever calculated that we were able
to sustain our selfs after passing the Gap, I very doubt whether we should have
been allowed to pass it with so little resistance as it only 5 miles from the salt works
Sunday the road was skirmished from camp to the works of the enemy. Efforts were made
by them to hinder our advance by throwing shell from the forts but in spite of
them we advanced to within a mile of the village dismounted and prepared to carry the
works a la infantry. The attack was made at three points. The third brigade Colonel Charles Hanson, 37th Kentucky, commanding took the right, the 1st brigade, General
Hobson of the 4th brigade, the center; and Colonel R. W. Rateliffe, 12th Ohio, the left.
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