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Michigan Cavalry Brigade 2
All realized their dangerous position and were most anxious for a ' Pathfinder,' which, providentially, soon made an appearance in the person of an old negro. As he approached the camp-fire, one of Kilpatricks aids said to him, ' Uncle, can you tell us where Tunstall's Station is?' He replied, 'Bress your heart, Cap'n, you are within half a mile of it.' Tunstall's had been a station on the York River and Richmond railroad, but over a year before had been, with all the surrounding buildings, burned and the rails and ties carried off, and with one year's growth of vegetation could hardly be found by any person not familiar with the locality.
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