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Jacob Harrison Allspaugh diary, January-July 1863
1863-03-21, page 2
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staid 'till near night. The whole a amount of this affair was, a squad of rebel cavalry drove in our outpost cavalry, Using artillery, but they being a little spunkey weresurrounded and would have been taken in had it not been for our Elite who got there just in time to drive the rebels off. The Elite dismounted but the rebels would not stand, and after chasing them 5 or 6 miles they returned
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staid 'till near night. The whole a amount of this affair was, a squad of rebel cavalry drove in our outpost cavalry, Using artillery, but they being a little spunkey weresurrounded and would have been taken in had it not been for our Elite who got there just in time to drive the rebels off. The Elite dismounted but the rebels would not stand, and after chasing them 5 or 6 miles they returned
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