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Comte de Paris, History of the Civil War in America. Vol. 3. (ed. Henry Coppee , LL.D.), Book I:—the war on the Rapidan. (search)
ades and two small regular regiments, the First and Fifth, forming a brigade under Captain Reno. After assembling them secretly, Averell took up the line of march on the 16th at the head of his three brigades, numbering between two thousand and twenty-five hundred horses, with a battery of artillery. The following morning, March 17, the column left Morrisville, and reached Kelly's Ford on the Rappahannock at an early hour. The right bank was lined with the enemy's sharpshooters. Lieutenant S. A. Brown, with a platoon of mounted men of the First Rhode Island, rushes into the river under the fire of the Confederates, arrives in their midst, takes twenty-five prisoners, disperses the rest, and opens a passage for the division. See Sabres and Spurs—First Rhode Island Cavalry. By Denison, 1876. The Southern cavalry, thus taken by surprise, got back as well as they could to their horses, which they had had the imprudence to leave at too great a distance from them, and then hastened t