. Minty and the cavalry [electronic resource]: a history of cavalry campaigns in the western armies. d : then, halting, re-formed his command, under aterrific fire, and again charged their second line, postedon the opposite side of a lane, with two fences betweenhim and them. The rebels waited only until they sawour men passing through the fences, when they broke,scattering in every direction, and were driven from thefield in the wildest confusion. In these engagements, the rebels lost, out of theircavalry, eighty-nine killed and one hundred and fivewounded and captured. Of their infantry, the
. Minty and the cavalry [electronic resource]: a history of cavalry campaigns in the western armies. d : then, halting, re-formed his command, under aterrific fire, and again charged their second line, postedon the opposite side of a lane, with two fences betweenhim and them. The rebels waited only until they sawour men passing through the fences, when they broke,scattering in every direction, and were driven from thefield in the wildest confusion. In these engagements, the rebels lost, out of theircavalry, eighty-nine killed and one hundred and fivewounded and captured. Of their infantry, the loss can-not be ascertained, as their dead was subsequently gath-ered and buried, and the wounded could not be takenout when the charging column returned ; the ground hav-ing also been fought over both before and after thecharge, renders all estimate impossible. A sergeant of theSeventh Pennsylvania, however, who, having been on theline of videttes in rear of our line of battle, was capturedwhen McCook was defeated, stated to Colonel Minty, afew days after, that their dead was many officers and. BATTLEFIELD,t 5T0HES ft/VER Ihr Army, />rrini/i</? ,<[. 117 twenty men, that he knew of, from the sabers oi 1 In? cliv-al ry The best evidence of 1 lie completeness of Minlvs vic-tor)- over the rebel cavalry on this occasion, is found inthe fact that \Yheeler rel reated immediately beyond theShelbyville pike, or completely behind the infantry lines ;and then remained during- the whole of the Hirer nextdays subsequent lighting ; while Minty held the groundon the left Hank of the rebel army during the 1st, 2d, and:M of January, and on the 4th moved forward and left-ward, and occupied Wilkinson Cross-roads, two miles inrear of the rebel position. It is not within the limits of this work to present a de-tailed history of the part taken by other commands in thevarious battles and campaigns, but a brief account of themore prominent incidents, with the results obtained, isnecessary,
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