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NINETEENTH REGIMENT INFANTRY
They succeeded in driving them from the station. He then ordered them to take the battery in front. The men moved on in good order. To the right of this battery was a stone wall fence, where the rebels were posted in large numbers; from behind this fence they poured in a galling and destructive fire causing our men to fall back, but they reformed at the crest of the hill and resisted successfully the charge of two brigades. Colonel Coburn then brought over the 19th Michigan, and twice again
did these three regiments drive back the enemy in greatly superior force.
American Civil War
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