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Comte de Paris, History of the Civil War in America. Vol. 2. (ed. Henry Coppee , LL.D.), Book IV:—Kentucky (search)
, he disguised himself as a Confederate soldier, and entered into conversation with the inhabitants of the few houses in the vicinity of which Cooper had halted, being well aware that the sight of a Federal uniform would keep all mouths shut. Seven thousand of the enemy's cavalry were encamped in a large prairie surrounded by woods, in the vicinity of an old post called Fort Wayne, six kilometres beyond Maysville. Blunt's cavalry consisted of four Kansas regiments and two regiments of Cherokee Indians, accompanied by two batteries, about four thousand men in all. But when day broke, he had only a few hundred men around him; it was important, however, to strike before he was discovered, and Blunt, putting on a bold front, determined to make the attack. His vanguard dismounted and commenced firing. Whilst the Confederates, thus surprised, were endeavoring to understand the condition of affairs, the rest of the Union troops, who had come up at a gallop from Maysville, arrived and dep