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On 4 December 1861, fifty-five men of the 3rd New Jersey Infantry under Col. George W. Taylor set an ambush near Braddock Road in retaliation for attacks on Union pickets. They stretched two telegraph wires across the road at the eastern end of a “perfect bog hole” to dismount riders. Near midnight, twenty-four cavalrymen of the Georgia Hussars, led by Capt. J. Fred. Waring, entered the trap from the west, and a “sheet of fire” burst from the tree line along the swamp’s edge. The Confederates returned fire and escaped with four men wounded and one captured, while Union losses were one killed, two wounded, and one captured.
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