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Second Regiment Cavalry
Here he conceived the idea to plant a piece of artillery and take the rebels by surprise. Going to the captain of the battery connected with his brigade, he said: 'Captain, can you take one of your guns and place it in yonder woods?' 'Colonel,' replied the captain, ' by heaven, I dare put it wherever you say, if it is in hell ' Well,' says the Colonel, ' I will go with you.' So, taking a part of the 2d Michigan Cavalry to support the gun, he took a circuit to the right and succeeded in planting the piece so close to the enemy, that, as the colonel afterwards remarked, 'you could see the whites of their eyes.
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