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Michigan Cavalry Brigade 2
A correspondent Detroit Free Press wrote:
" The telegraph has already told you of the fight at Buckland's Mills, in which the 5th Michigan Cavalry suffered a severe loss. That regiment, led by the brave Colonel, did all that men could do. Major Clark's battalion, consisting of companies B, E, G, and K, ■while dismounted were surrounded by overwhelming numbers, and Major Clark, Captain Lee, and Lieutenant Barse, and forty-eight men were captured. The conduct of these men, fighting when there was no hope of escape, pouring volley after volley from their repeating rifles in the ranks of the enemy, has made them the theme of universal praise; Lieutenant Barse, like a lion, holding out even against hope.
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