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Second Regiment Cavalry
which proved too formidable to attack, and he was ordered back to Boonville and thence proceeded with the army to Corinth.
" On the 11th, Sheridan assumed command of the 2d brigade of the cavalry division, army of the Mississippi, composed of the 2d Michigan and 2d Iowa Cavalry. On the 26th he was ordered to take a position at Boonville, twenty miles in front of the main army. There he was attacked on July 1st by nine regiments of rebel cavalry under General Chalmers, estimated at from five to six thousand. After considerable sharp skirmishing, he fell back on the edge of a swamp, a strong position, where ho expected to hold the enemy in check, but on finding that he was being surrounded he resorted to strategy,
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