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Michigan Cavalry Brigade 2
Resuming the march, it arrived before Richmond on the afternoon of the next day, and while on picket during the night was attacked by a superior force. After a desperate fight, being unsupported, it was obliged to retire, with a loss in missing of 44, among whom was its commanding officer, Lieutenant Colonel A. C. Litchfleld, who was taken prisoner. Having reached Yorktown, the command moved from thence to Alexandria by transports, and marched to its former camp near Stevensburg."
From, an official report in relation to the same affair:
"In the dead of the night Wade Hampton's whole division charged our camp, and forty-one of our best men were either killed or taken prisoners.
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