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left the place where the two Colonels had their conversation, that Colonel Pritchard, after arriving at the river where he was to stay for orders, at once gave orders for one hundred and fifty of his best mounted men to charge down the river towards Irvingville, to which place Colonel Harnden had said Davis was going, and get between Davis and us, and check us while the main command came along and capture Davis.

J. J. Appling,

Co. K, First Wisconsin Cavalry, detailed as orderly for Colonel Harnden.

Subscribed and sworn to before me this 7th day of February, 1898.

W. O. Campbell,
Clerk Circuit Court, Marshall County,
South Dakota.

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