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Ninth Regiment Cavalry
Major Gallagher, in pursuit of the rebels, drove them down a deep ravine, where the descent was so abrupt that horses, gun carriages, and caissons were mingled in one mass of ruin. Of course their capture under the circumstances was an easy matter, and Major Gallagher, without waiting to extricate the horses, pushed on after the retreating rebels."
" Major Brockway pushed his command so far to the front that a man with less coolness and courage would have been ambushed, but for him it was only a storm of bullets and victory."
Another detachment, in command of Major Way, consisting of Companies D, E, H, and I, with a section of Battery L, 1st Michigan Light Artillery, under Lieutenant Gallagher,
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