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On reporting to General Custer at Hanover, this regiment was at once deployed as skirmishers, forming a line of battle one mile in length, advanced upon the enemy and drove them until they withdrew.
"On the evening of July 2d the regiment encountered the enemy's cavalry at Hunters-town. Company A, under command of Captain H. A. Thompson, charged a brigade of cavalry, and though suffering great loss, so checked the enemy as to enable our battery to be placed in a position. Three other squadrons then dismounted, and with their rifles drove the enemy back, when the guns of our battery caused them to hastily leave the field.
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