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Fourth Cavalry
In this expedition Lieutenant Edward L. Tucker was slightly wounded in the leg, and one enlisted man severely in the breast. Private Racine of Company A (a boy of about 18) was well up in the advance, and after striking the camp became separated from his company, and was shot through the right lung by a rebel soldier, who rushed at the wounded boy, calling out: "Surrender, you damned Yankee!" Instead of obeying his summons, Racine raised his carbine and shot the rebel dead. Shortly after, while Dr. Fish was dressing his wound, Racine gasped out: "Just think, Doctor, that fellow had the impudence to tell me to surrender!"
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