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Second Regiment Cavalry
The command after making a circuit of about one hundred miles or more in rear of the rebel army, then concentrated at Corinth, burned the railroad bridge at Boonville, captured a great quantity of arms of all kinds, destroying a large supply train. On the morning of the 30th May, Sheridan repulsed an attack of the enemy's cavalry under command of Colonel McNairy, driving them in great confusion.
On arriving at Corinth the regiment was ordered to join the army near Boonville, then pursuing the forces of Beauregard after the evacuation of Corinth. While on a reoonnoissance with the cavalry under Elliott to Blackland, Sheridan encountered the left wing of the enemy's forces at that point on June 1st.
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