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NINETEENTH REGIMENT INFANTRY
From the 5th to the 10th of May the regiment formed part of the force that made a demonstration on Buzzard's Roost, but was not engaged. Marching through Snake Creek Gap it took part in the battle of Resaca, May 15th. In this action the regiment participated in a charge on and capture of one of the enemy's batteries. Its loss was 14 killed and 66 wounded. Colonel Henry C. Gilbert, commanding the regiment, was mortally wounded during this charge on the rebel battery, and died of his wounds at Chickamauga, May 24th fol lowing, Captain C. H. Chalmer being killed in the same charge.
American Civil War
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