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Second Regiment Cavalry
when Colonel Sheridan, finding the enemy most determined, and affairs becoming critical, viewing at a glance the situation, ordered one battalion by a circuitous route to charge the enemy in the rear 200 men to charge 7,000! yet they did it gallantly. At the same time, a supply train arriving from Corinth, Sheridan ordered the engineer to give a lively and cheering blast with his whistle, and the reserve to yell with a will, thus leading the enemy to believe that reinforcements Śwere arriving; he withdrew his force to Tupelo, and left Sheridan and his handful of brave men masters of the field.
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