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Michigan Cavalry Brigade 2
but not until the chilalric Granger had fallen, pierced through the head and heart by the bullets of the enemy, He fell, as the warrior loves to fall, with his face to the foe. The united efforts of the 1st, 6th, 6th, and 7th, assisted by Heaton's battery, and the 1st Vermont, under the gallant Colonel Preston, proved sufficient, after a short contest, to rout the enemy and drive him from his position. His defeat was complete. He fled, leaving a large number of dead and wounded in our hands. Among the dead was the body of the notorious Colonel Henry Clay Pate.
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