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The Daily Dispatch: May 31, 1862., [Electronic resource], Scott's Louisiana Cavalry in North Alabama. (search)
the regiment had crossed except 111 men. Upon this small body the Fourth Ohio regiment of cavalry charged in splendid style. They were received by our boys with a yell and a perfect sheet of bullets and buckshot, which drove them back in wild confusion, with the loss of sixteen killed, including Colonel Kleakle, their commander. Out of ammunition, and having waited in vain for promised reinforcements, Scott was compelled, in view of the overwhelming force opposing him, to recross the Tennessee river, which he did in splendid style, without the further loss of a single man or horse. His total loss in all these encounters was three killed, seven-wounded, and five missing, together with some ten or fifteen horses killed. In killed, wounded, and prisoners, the enemy certainly lost 100 to 200 men. The spoils of the 18th Ohio camp, which was taken at Athens, were rich beyond description. Tents, overcoats, wagons, horses, blankets, guns, ammunition, were all brought over the river