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10th Regiment Cavalry
While the 10th was absent, the convalescents and special duty men of the regiment, in command of Captain J. H. Standish, numbering about 125 men, were left in garrison at Strawberry Plains with some 150 from other commands. They were attacked on August 24th by a rebel cavalry corps under Wheeler, numbering from 6,000 to 8,000 men, with nine pieces of artillery. The Union troops made a successful defense against this force, and thus saved the post from capture and the great railroad bridge from destruction.
Daring this attack seven of Standish's men, by hard fighting held McMillan's Ford, on the Holston river, for three and a half hours against a brigade of rebel cavalry, killing forty or fifty of them, but were finally surrounded and captured.
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