11th Cavalry


The duty of the 4th brigade, consisting of the 12th Ohio, llth Michigan, and 5th U. S. Colored Cavalry, was to charge a mountain and capture or silence the batteries placed upon it. The peculiar position of the salt works, one of the strongest in the whole Con-' federacy, lenders it impossible for an enemy to hold any one of the mountains without artillery, as each hillside is commanded by batteries from the others. The salt works .are in the valley and the hills seem to encircle it. The strength of the position needs only to be known to show what a desperate undertaking was before us. We were ordered forward and forward we went, with the llth Michigan on the right, 12th Ohio, in the center, and the colored troops on the left; in the face of a galling and murderous fire from rifle pits and breastworks, though solid shot and shell were falling all around, charged the 4th brigade.

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