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Union General Philip Sheridan's cavalry suffered heavy losses in the June 11, 1864, fight with Confederate General Wade Hampton's troopers at Trevilian Station, Virginia. Though his Union force had held the field, Sheridan was apprehensive about the success of the ambitious mission assigned him of drawing the Confederate cavalry away from Grant's army at Cold Harbor. Though Sheridan's men outnumbered the enemy horsemen eight to five, the Rebels were seriously hampering the progress of the rest of the mission, and fought valiantly at Trevilian Station in action that earned Union soldiers six Medals of Honor in two days. Among these heroes was Sergeant Major Herbert Farnsworth who voluntarily carried a message which stopped the firing of a Union battery into his regiment, in which heroic effort he crossed a ridge in plain view of the enemy and swept by the fire of both armies. |
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