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Civil War
Seventh Regiment Infantry
The regiment in this gallant affair was commanded by Lieutenant Colonel Henry Baxter, who was severely wounded on the occasion while crossing the river, Lieutenant Franklin Emery being among the killed.
Two pontoon bridges had already been built on the extreme left, but it was decided that the crossing could not be undertaken until the upper bridges were completed, but with them little progress had been made. Half a dozen attempts to do so had been repulsed each time with severe loss. The rebel sharpshooters, posted in the cellars of houses on the front street, not fifty yards from the river, behind stone walls, and in rifle pits, were able to pick off with remarkable accuracy any party of engineers venturing on the half completed bridges.
American Civil War
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