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Second Regiment Cavalry
On the 23d the regiment marched, via New Market, to Dandridge, where at daylight on the 24th it participated in an attack on a superior force of the enemy. The fight lasted during the day, the Union forces falling back at night to New Market. The loss of the regiment was 2 killed, 8 wounded and 10 taken prisoners.
Dr. Brownell in a report says of his regiment in this affair:
portion of the enemy's cavalry through that place, and then halted north of the town, with no enemy in sight. At 2 P. M., same day, the rebels, under cover of the hills and by a curve in the road, rapidly pushed in, in rear of the command, with two brigades of cavalry, cutting Colonel Campbell off from his only source of retreat.
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