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United States Civil War
FIFTH REGIMENT INFANTRY
From New York Herald:
"General McLaw's division of Longstreet's corps was posted in strong earthworks between Long Creek and the river, and seemed disposed to hold Taylor's bridge at all hazards, and poured a storm of shot and shell from their batteries, when General Birney, with his division, advanced. Cols. Pierce (3d Mich. ), and Eagan, with their brigades, 1st and 2d, made an assault on the enemy's works at 6 o'clock P. M., of the 23d instant (May). The riflemen of the enemy poured a deadly fire into their ranks, and they charged on the batteries on high ground a little to the left of the bridge, scouring the open space in every direction, tearing up the earthworks with their whizzing missiles.
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