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Civil War Engineers
Engineers and Mechanics
While thus anxiously waiting, a large advancing rebel force made its appearance, and the hastily improvised corral was soon attacked by the troops of Major General Wheeler, comprising from three to four thousand cavalry with a section of light artillery, their object, as was afterwards ascertained, being to plunder and burn the trains passing on the pike laden with supplies for Rosecrans's army.
Civil War Mechanics
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