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American Civil War
Fourteenth Regiment Infantry
I improvised a battery organization from my regiment, supplied it with horses from the country, threw up an earthwork on an eminence in the skirt of the town, and with my regiment of five hundred men, and eighty detached men of other regiments manning the guns at Forts Granger and Franklin, held secure both posts and the line between until March last, supplying all troops passing through Columbia, gathering every pound of beef and forage from the country, constructing the pontoon and railway bridge near Columbia,
Civil War Battle
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