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American Civil War
TWENTIETH REGIMENT INFANTRY
bringing off our wounded and our one gun, and crossing the river in face of the enemy, the enemy acknowledging a loss of 157 killed.
"For this affair we received the high encomiums of Colonel R. T. Jacobs, 9th Kentucky Cavalry, commanding, and the thanks in orders of General Burnside, commanding 9th corps. "
From the report of Lieutenant Colonel W. Huntington Smith:
" Sunday, May 10th, 1863, at about 8 o'clock A. M., the enemy vigorously attacked our pickets with dismounted cavalry, and after a brisk resistance of ten minutes
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