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United States Civil War
FIFTH REGIMENT INFANTRY
On the 6th, in command respectively of Captains W. W. Wakenshaw and
E. H. Shook (both being wounded), it shared in a successful charge on the
enemy's works, when Sergeant Joseph Kemp, of Company F, captured the
colors of a Virginia regiment. Among the killed was Captain Wilberforce
Hurlbut, while leading his company in the charge, being shot through the
head. On the 7th, the enemy having retreated, the regiment, in command of
a lieutenant, followed in pursuit, overtaking them at noon on the 8th, at
Todd's Tavern. A portion of the regiment was deployed as skirmishers, and the whole command was under a heavy artillery fire during the remainder of the day and until noon of the 10th.
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