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United States Civil War
FIFTH REGIMENT INFANTRY
The ammunition having become exhausted the men supplied themselves with cartridges from the boxes of their dead comrades. Among the killed were Captain Generous and Lieutenant Thelan, while the list of wounded included Colonel Pulford, Major Mathews, and Lieutenants Colville, Pierce, Rouse, Braden, Hurlbut, and Stevens.
In the American Encyclopedia is found the following notice of the 3d corps,. in which the fifth was serving at Gettysburg:
General Sickles having sent out a regiment (5th infantry, while the 3d Michigan was also on the same picket line) of sharpshooters about a mile beyond the Emmettsburg turnpike, they reported that the enemy were moving in large masses to turn the Union left:
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