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Michigan Cavalry Brigade
In the early part of the day, however, all the advantages were with Early, and had he been content with capturing our guns and 800 hundred prisoners, and driving our army from its position, his victory would have been one of the most signal of the war. But when he undertook to pursue with the force at his command he invited the very disaster which befell him. His advance on Tuesday night was made with great secrecy and caution; his men were stripped of their canteens and put in light inarching order, and by dawn on Wednesday morning were massed in battle order inside our lines, with nothing whatever to obstruct their progress on our encampment.
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