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EIGHTEENTH REGIMENT INFANTRY
a new regiment which had just arrived and been placed in position behind breastworks on left flank, to move to the front and occupy the line of rifle-pits on the left of the redoubt. This they did under a warm fire from the enemy's battery and small arms in good style for a new regiment. Soon after I ordered up the balance of the regiment, directing 100 men under the Major to be sent to fort No. 1. About 4 o'clock I ordered Captain Charles Cooper, Chief of Artillery, to send a section of Battery F, 1st Ohio Artillery, to occupy a small earthwork on the left, and about 300 yards in rear of the redoubt occupied by Battery A,
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