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Ninth Regiment Cavalry
Major Way, with 250 men of the 9th Michigan Cavalry, dashed among them and commenced cutting right and left. The rebels made but a brief resistance. A few shots were fired by them, and then the whole party broke in utter confusion. The scene that followed was almost ridiculous, and could only be matched by the previous stampede at Buffington's Island. Men dismounted, threw down their arms, and begged for quarter, while others galloped around wildly in search of a place of escape, and were brought to time by a pistol shot or sabre stroke.
"Morgan himself was riding in a carriage drawn by two white horses.
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