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11th Cavalry


The rebel position proving too strong to be held, the command, after most stubborn fighting, was withdrawn, but not until all its ammunition had been expended. On the retreat the llth constituted the rear guard, and next day skirmished with the enemy's advance, and the day following the battle was renewed near Sandy Mountain where the regiment became cut off from the division and surrounded by a body of cavalry numbering about 4,000, under ' Cerro Gordo Williams. After a very sanguinary conflict of over an hour, the enemy closing in upon the regiment, Colonel Mason, determined on fight before surrender, gallantly led the regiment to the charge and succeeded, after a bloody hand-to hand encounter in cutting through the rebel lines, punishing the enemy so severely that he abandoned any pursuit.

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