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The Daily Dispatch: June 5, 1862., [Electronic resource], The recent skirmish near Pocotaligo, S. C. (search)
ery and a company of cavalry, armed with breech loading carbines. This force, numbering about 1,100 men, and composed, as it was, of mixed commands, it would seem, spent most of the night in effecting a landing, and began a march of twelve miles on Thursday morning, at which time our pickets reported the advance of the enemy's column. However, about nine o'clock orders were extended to Major Morgan's battalion of cavalry (four companies), the Rutledge Mounted riflemen, and Capt, D. Blax. Heyward's "Marion Troop, " to "boot and saddle." This command rendezvoused at the railroad station promptly, and moved thence down the road leading to Old Pocotaligo, Capt. Trenholm's company in the advance. The Rutledge Mounted riflemen and a company of Rangers from Major Morgan's battalion, the first armed with breach-loading carbines, and the latter with double barrel guns, dismounted and deployed as skirmishers among the "old oaks" and in the neighboring woods, covering the road, a small party