11th Cavalry


Our gallant Lieutenant Colonel, James B. Mason, assumed the command, and the fight became general. The rebels were in bushes and concealed behind rocks, while our boys were in the road and utterly ignorant of their whereabouts or numbers except from their firing. Ammunition was fast giving out and men began to falter. One word of cheer from the noble Mason and again they were firm as a rock. Those Spencer carbines were our salvation. Colonel Mason sent forward for more help, and scarce had the messenger gone when he fell mortally wounded. Had this occurred in the early part of the action, our defeat would have been the result, but with his fall ceased the fighting. A brave man has fallen, the loss to us is irreparable.. The regiment mourns him as a brother or as a father, for he .was the idol of his men.

Civil War

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