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Civil War Artillery
First Regiment Light Artillery
The men, too, loved the guns, and many sealed their devotion on that day with their blood; and principal among them was Van Pelt. "With his horses killed, his men dead, and his supports overwhelmed and driven back, the enemy rushed upon his battery. Van Pelt, as the last act of his young life, drew his sword and sprang to the front of his pieces with that inexplicable frenzy which inspires with strength as with courage; he cried (so his men say), with a voice of thunder, Don't dare to touch 'em!' On the inexorable wave of glistening bayonets surged, over and past him, burying him under his lost guns. "
Light Artillery
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