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The negro troops fought nobly.

Now, in accordance with the above, this brigade numbered some twenty-seven hundred men; say it had but twenty-seven hundred or twenty-two hundred in line at Drewry's Bluff, then it greatly outnumbered the attacking force. There was besides a body of negro cavalry, said to be the Second United States Colored cavalry, placed on the extreme right of this brigade. Of these gay riders we are credibly informed that they made tracks to the rear on the first fire, and greatly assisted in the confusion which happened to the unlucky ‘Star Brigade,’ and no doubt strengthened their belief in the story of the overwhelming rebel column which attacked them in flank and rear.

Richmond, VA. 1891.

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