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Gaelan act.
--Philip Cashmeyer, one of Gen Winder's detectives, went to the battlefield on Saturday morning to carry an order, and while there saw an opportunity of bringing down a Yankee Colonel with his revolver.
While near the dying vandal who was strapped to his horse, and could not fall off, though mortally wounded, a private soldier charged on him with great impetuosity.
By a dexterous use of his hands Cashmeyer seized the bayonet, and turning it aside, gave him his querulous.
The nett results of the affair was a fine horse, sword, pistol, gun, and field glass, all of which the heroin detective secured.