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11th Cavalry


The command having been engaged at Mt. Airy, entered Wytheville, at which place a large amount of stores were taken and destroyed, the regiment procceeding to Max Meadow Station, being ten miles further in that direction than had been reached by any other Union troops. There it destroyed a large arsenal, returning the same night to a point three miles south of Wytheville, and reaching Marion on the 17th, when a detachment of the llth, then forming a part of the brigade of Colonel Brown, coming upon the enemy under Breckinridge, charged his cavalry and opened the engagement, which continued with much vigorous fighting for 36 hours, during which repeated and daring charges were made by both sides, and the enemy, after the most determined fighting, fell back in disorder across the mountains into North Carolina.

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