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78 hero with a single corps which did not number 15,000 battled with him for 12 hours nearly incessantly, retiring in good order five miles to Banks Ford retreated across the river in the face of a veteran army, victorious, valiant, overwhelming in numbers, and commanded by one of the ablest generals the world has ever produced, bringing off all his artilery, ambulances, nearly off of his wounded and 1200 prisoners. Honor, forever, be to the 6th Corp. and Gen. Sedgewick.