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Civil War
TENTH REGIMENT INFANTRY
" For the second and more important attack, portions of General Newton's division of the 4th corps, and of General Davis's of the 14th corps, were selected. At a given signal the troops rushed forward with buoyant courage, charged up the face of the mountain amidst a murderous fire from a powerful battery on the summit and through two lines of abatis, carried a line of rifle-pits beyond, and reached the works. The colors of several regiments were planted before the latter, and some of the men succeeded in mounting the ramparts,
American Civil War
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