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Ninth Regiment Cavalry
General Morgan had already fled, but Colonel Duke still struggled to remain master of the field. His regiments were called in from our right and formed in line of battle on our left. Thompson's battery now opened on the center of their column with their rifled guns, with such rapidity and accuracy that they broke and fled. The 9th was now divided; two companies under Major Gallagher moved down on the right of their line of retreat, while Colonel Acker with the rest of his command pushed up on the right, capturing, after a charge on the gallop, Colonel Duke with one hundred and fifteen men, and turned the retreating rebels back on the 8th Michigan, who were waiting to give them a royal welcome. Colonel WORMER captured two hundred prisoners. Among them was Colonel Dick Morgan, a brother of the notorious John.
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