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Rebellion Record: a Diary of American Events: Documents and Narratives, Volume 9. (ed. Frank Moore), chapter 68 (search)
. H. Kimmel particularly distinguished himself for his bravery, coolness under fire, and ability to command. On the twentieth of November, by order of Brigadier-General Kilpatrick, through Colonel E. H. Murry, commanding First brigade, Captain E. A. Hancock was detached, with one hundred men of the Ninth Pennsylvania cavalry, at Clinton, with orders to take a road leading to Macon, to the right of the main column, and to engage any enemy he might meet. In obedience to this order, he marchedrom Waynesboro we marched on Savannah, passing to the south as far as Midway, and from thence to this place, occasionally skirmishing with Colonel Hood's battalion of rebel cavalry, but without any loss. On the morning of the thirteenth, Captain E. A. Hancock, with detachments from the brigade, (one hundred and twenty men,) marched on an expedition to Altamaha Bridge, but found the enemy (two regiments of infantry and artillery) too strongly posted to attack them. He destroyed, however, sever