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4th Cavalry
Crossing Noonday creek, engaged the enemy in force at Lattimer's Mill. The 4th Michigan deployed in line of battle on the right of a road, remaining there a short time. The 7th Pennsylvania having charged the enemy and finding him too strong-, the 4th Michigan being ordered to support the 1st and 2d battalions, in command of Captains Pritchard and Leach, respectively, crossed the Little .Noonday creek and charged the enemy, but did not succeed in driving him from his position, the rebel force being immensely superior as to numbers. The 3d battalion, in command of Major Mix, not having crossed the Little Noonday, was then thrown into line on the left of the road where the enemy was attacking in great force, but the combined Union force proved insufficient to even hold him in check,
Michigan Cavalry
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