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United States Civil War
FIFTH REGIMENT INFANTRY
The redoubt was carried at the point of the bayonet, and a considerable number of rebels killed in the entrenchments, and 110 captured. This assault, which was made under the immediate direction of General Birney, was considered a very brilliant affair, and General Hancock wrote him a very congratulatory letter. The 3d and 5th Michigan and 18th and 12th New York, 99th Pennsylvania, and 17th Maine suffered more severely than any other regiments in the division. "
It engaged on May 24th in strengthening the works erected, the command holding their position under a heavy fire. During the afternoon the regiment crossed the river in the face of a very heavy fire of shot and shell, and again compelled the enemy to retire before them, Lieutenant Samuel Pierce being among the killed.
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