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Second Regiment Cavalry
to relieve a brigade stationed at Boonville, Miss., some twenty miles south of Corinth, on the Mobile and Ohio railroad, being at that time the extreme outpost of the army in that direction. The movement was duly accomplished so far as the cavalry were concerned, but the artillery and its support did not arrive at their desti nation until the evening of the 1st of July. The rebel General Chalmers, then in that vicinity gaining information from citizen regarding the strength of the' command at Boonville and expecting to make an easy conquest, attacked Sheridan's pickets at 8 AM on July 1st, with (as was afterwards ascertained) 7,000 mounted men.
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