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| For a second day, Colonel Joseph Wheeler advanced up the Old Stage Road with the 1st Battalion, 1st Tennessee Cavalry to engage a Federal cavalry battalion occupying Newport. |
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| The Union cavalrymen, under Lieutenant Colonel Isaac Richmond, occupied the same position as the previous day, among the buildings at the edge of town. |
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| After the skirmish had started, another Union cavalry battalion approached on the Newport Road. |
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| The newly arrived battalion took a position on the right of the engaged battalion and also opened fire. |
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| Unlike the first battalion to engage, the newly arrived Union battalion started advancing as the fired in an attempt to close the gap with the enemy. |
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| Before they got too close, the Confederate line retreated and withdrew southward down the Old Stage Road to Finley. |
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