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Letter from Colonel Alger, dated Einmettsburg, Penn., July 4th, says: '' Major Ferry of our regiment was killed yesterday. We are passing through this place on our way towards the Upper Potomac, to cut off the enemy's communications. We had a terrible fight yesterday, but thanks to the ' God of Battles,' He crowned our arms with victory. The loss of the 5th in killed, wounded, and missing, will not exceed fifty. Major L. S. Trowbridge had a horse killed under him."
A correspondent of the New York Times wrote:
" Full justice, I have already said, in many instances, has not been rendered to regiments, and sometimes whole brigades, of our cavalry force, the services of which deserve more than a passing notice.
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