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United States Civil War
FIFTH REGIMENT INFANTRY
Another charge was ordered, and our men marched up on double-quick and leaped into the rifle-pits, carried the position and retained it. The enemy fled in confusion, leaving sixty-three dead on the field, besides the wounded. I am pained to be compelled to state that Lieutenant James A. Gunning, commanding Company C, was shot through the heart and instantly killed just at the moment of victory.
Extract from correspondence of the New York Tribune in relation to the battle of Williamsburg:
Civil War
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