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Confederate force, Private Sneden and a handful of others were captured on Nov. 26, 1863, while sleeping in a house near Brandy Station.
Before going to sleep, he wrote, he had spied a band of horsemen in a nearby woods. “I noticed that they did not look like our cavalry, although they all wore blue overcoats like ours,” his diary relates. “Some wore slouch hats. More than half of them walked their horses slowly, as if to reconnoitre our position. I concluded they were either Meshy’s gang or Rebel cavalry of some sort, but on telling the boys,
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