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First Sharp Shooters
The object of the attack having been attained, it was ordered back to its former position, having suffered a heavy loss. On the next day, about 4 A. M., then in command of Major E. J. Buckbee, Colonel Nichols having been wounded on the 2d, it was again
ordered to advance, under the supposition that the enemy was withdrawing. On moving forward and finding that be had evacuated his works, it pushed on and was the first regiment to enter Petersburg, and while Colonel Ely was receiving the surrender of the city raised the first national flag on the court house of that rebel stronghold.
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