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Lieutenant Luther Baker and Colonel Everton Conger,
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accompany 26 members of the 16th New York Cavalry,
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under the command of Lieutenant Edward Doherty.
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Our cause, being almost lost,
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something decisive and great must be done.
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I struck boldly, and not as the papers say.
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I shouted sic semper before I fired.
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In jumping broke my leg.
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This night before the deed,
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I wrote a long article and left it for one of the editors
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of the National Intelligencer,
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in which I fully set forth