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Civil War
Seventh Regiment Infantry
Charging across the open field they drove the enemy's skirmishers from behind a fence, where they were posted. This position they held during the afternoon until 5 o'clock, when the enemy succeeded in breaking our line near the center of the 1st division. By this accident this regiment was cut off from their support, and was nearly surrounded, when Lieutenant Colonel Smith, commanding, gave the order to move by the left flank at double quick. A portion succeed in getting through the gap before the rebels closed, the only place by which they could escape. Colonel Smith remaining to see that all his men understood the order, and the position they were in, was captured and robbed of his watch and pocket-book.
American Civil War
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