A scouting party of about two hundred men mounted on horses
and mules, and carrying one piece of light artillery, came upon a rebel camp
some eighteen miles out and engaged in a fierce fight. After standing their
ground for two hours the rebels left for the tall timber. They left their
supplies to our men, who burned all that they could not bring with them, and
returned to camp with only five or six men wounded, bringing one lone prisoner.
Source: Alexander G. Downing, Edited by Olynthus B.,
Clark, Downing’s Civil War Diary, p. 98
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