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United States Civil War
FIFTH REGIMENT INFANTRY
On the 3d of May, 1864, the regiment, in command of Colonel Pulford, and then in the 2d brigade, 3d division, 2d corps (Hancock's), entered upon the great campaign of the year. It crossed the Rapidan at an early hour on the 4th, and at 4 P. M. reached the old battlefield at Chancellorsville, having accomplished a distance of 34 miles in 17 hours, the men each carrying the weight of five days' rations and sixty rounds of cartridges. On the 5th the enemy were met on the road leading to Orange Court House. The regiment participated in the desperate struggle which ensued, sustaining, in this and the following day, a severe loss in killed and wounded, including among the wounded Captain Geo. W. Rose (mortally), Colonel Pulford, and Major S, S. Mathews, who had assumed command after Pulford was wounded.
Civil War
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