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Excerpt from Report of Brigadier General Echols, of the Battle of Droop Mountain
Colonel Patton, by my orders, went to the front and did everything that could be done in steadying and rallying and encouraging the men, and was, as usual, conspicuous on the field and in the thickest of the fight.
The force under my command, and actually engaged in the fight, numbered about seventeen hundred men. The force of the enemy engaged was about seven thousand, whom we held in check and fought for six hours. The estimate of Colonel Jackson placing their numbers at three thousand five hundred was correct at the time when made; but they were reinforced during the night previous to the battle without his knowledge, and these reinforcements could not be known, owing to the character of the country, until the fight had progressed for some time.
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