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Michigan Cavalry Brigade 2
Colonel Litchfleld mada a most heroic and gallant effort at the head of his men to check the rebel advance, dealing death and destruction in the ranks of the enemy; the last ball In his revolver was sent through a rebel brain at the moment he was seized by three others and borne down. He was not wounded, as at first reported. Captain John Clark was also lost at this, time, probably made a prisoner.
From the New York Times :
" At night the command went into camp at a place six miles from Richmond and two miles from the Chickahominy; at 11 o'clook, just as the command was fairly asleep, except those on duty, the rebels opened a two-gun battery
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