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United States Civil War
FIFTH REGIMENT INFANTRY
On the 6th the regiment, in command of Colonel Pulford, recrossed the Rappahannock and returned to camp near Falmouth, marching on the 6th, in twelve hours, 28 miles. On the 11th of June the regiment started on its march northward with the army, arriving at Gettysburg July 2d, when it became heavily engaged. Many of the movements preceding the battle at Gettysburg were accomplished only by rapid and laborious marches during excessively warm weather. On the 11th of June the regiment marched eighteen miles in seven hours, on the 12th eighteen miles in six hours, on the 25th twenty-eight miles in eleven hours, and on the 2d of July, ten miles in three hours, going into action at Gettysburg the same day at 4 P. M., and losing in an hour 105 men.
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