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U. S. Civil War
NINTH REGIMENT INFANTRY
and after a desperate contest of about thirty minutes, which terminated in a hand-to-hand fight, we repelled the charge and drove the enemy from camp. A second charge was soon made, which was less determined in its character and less successful to the enemy than the first charge. From this time until half past 12 o'clock—eight and a half hours from the first attack—the fighting was kept up in an irregular manner, sometimes by skirmish lines and sometimes by sortie of the regiment. ' Within one mile of my camp was the 3d Regiment Minnesota Volunteer Infantry, under command of Colonel Lester, who was also at the time in command of the post (afterwards dismissed for cowardice on this occasion), and Hewitt's Kentucky battery.
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