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Second Regiment Cavalry
On the first attack of the rebels at Perryville, which commenced early in the morning on Colonel McCook's command, the 36th Brigade, they appeared upon the right and left in great numbers, planting a battery in front and commenced pouring a shower of shrapnell upon the. 36th. For an hour this was continued. As soon as the position of the battery was ascertained, Barnett's Illinois battery, by a few well directed shots, silenced it. But the rebel artillery again rallied and again opened fire, and again were driven off; a second time
thev returned and met with the same fate,
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