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The column did not reach Hunterstown until 4 o'clock P. M. (on July 2d), when a squadron of the 18th Pennsylvania Cavalry, headed by Captain Estes, charged through and drove the enemy back upon his reserves to the Gettysburg road. After surveying the position, General Farnsworth's brigade was ordered on a road to the right leading to Cashtown, and General Ouster's brigade was placed to the left. Company A, Captain Thompson, of the 6th Michigan, was ordered to charge upon the rebel force then in sight. At the same time two companies of the 6th were deployed as skirmishers in a wheat field obliquely to the road, so as to pour in a raking fire upon the enemy, should the force sent forward be repulsed.
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