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we marched about 28 miles and went into camp on South river, at 11oclock that night we were routed out. heavy picket firing having commenced and harnefsed up and remained so till morning. When morning came we found ourselves completely surrounded and so commenced fighting on every side. The rebs first used artillery, opening with two 12 pd brass howitzers on our rear. Our section was ordered out, and got in position under a shower of bullets, and in 3 minutes obliged the rebel pieces to make themselves scarce. [new paragraph] We remained in this position about an hour and fired over 50 rounds of shell. When the rebs retreated from our front and at the same time our [overwritten with] 2 regt of our Cavalry made a charge mounted and drove the force in our rear