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captured or destroyed nearly or quite one thousand loaded wagons and between three and four thousand horses and mules; taken between four and five thousand rebel prisoners; destroyed one half of the rebel General Stuart s cavalry. and so demoralized the balance, that when a green (or blue) militia regiment (the with a regiment of Green Mountain Boys attacked them while posted behind earth-works at Hagerstown, the whole command fled panic stricken.-or at Williamsport Custer's brigade of Michiganders, with Penington's battery, captured more than man for man of an enemy whose force consisted of four times their number, in
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