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11th Cavalry
With a cheer they rushed down the hillside, and hand to hand fought the enemy in their intrenched ravine. Then up the hillside, which seemed ablaze with the flash of musketry, charging over rifle pits, through briars, brush, corn, and logs, we .pushed the terror-stricken foe till we reached their batteries. The rebels had taken great precaution to remove their guns a few minutes before, and after a desperate fight of three hours we carried the hill, planting our colors on their works.
"We were sure of victory, and had the other brigades done their part as well as we, we should have captured these formidable and valuable works. But at sun-down, being out of ammunition, the forces were withdrawn, and knowing the enemy to have been heavily re-inforeed during the day by Breckinridge, we commenced falling back immediately.
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