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United States Civil War
FIFTH REGIMENT INFANTRY
During the night earthworks were erected, but we left them to advance our position on the morning of the 22d to a point beyond a certain road that had been selected the evening previous and again abandoned. The written order was received on the morning of the 22d indicating where our right would rest. Accordingly the brigade was moved forward to the position indicated, each regiment in succession. Our right was to connect with the left of General Gibbon's troops, but by advancing to that position by daylight as we had received orders, it threw us out in an open field in an elevated position where we were exposed to a murderous fire from the enemy's sharpshooters and artillery.
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