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At daylight the enemy began by cautiously feeling .my line; but seeing his inability to surprise us, he contented himself with obtaining possession of Cedar mountain, which point he afterwards used as a signal station. At 1 P. M I received orders from the general commanding the division to report with my command at James City. The head of my column arrived in the vicinity of that point at 3 P. M. The enemy had already obtained possession of the town, and had brought several guns to bear upon the position I was ordered to take. Battery M, 2d U. S. Artillery, under command of Lieutenant Pennington, was unlimbered, and succeeded in shelling the
enemy out of the woods on the right of the town. At the same time, Colonel Alger, of the 6th Michigan Cavalry, who held the extreme left of my line, moved forward with one battalion of his regiment, under the gallant Major Clark, and charged the battery.
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