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Fourth Cavalry III
rendering it easy for persons to escape undiscovered to the woods and swamps in the darkness. After waiting an hour' or more, and just as the earliest dawn appeared, I put the column in motion and was enabled to approach within four or five rods of the camp undiscovered, when a dash was ordered, and in an instant the whole camp, with its inmates, was ours. A chain of mounted guards was immediately thrown around the camp, and dismounted sentries placed at the tents and wagons. The surprise was so complete, and the movement so sudden, that none of the enemy were able to make the slightest defense, or even arouse from their slumbers in time to grasp their weapons which were lying by their sides before they were wholly in our power. "At this moment a new scene opened, destined in its mournful results to cloud the otherwise perfect and glorious success of our expedition.
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