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Civil War
Third Regiment Infantry
which two companies again threw pickets in advance. The New York and 2d Michigan regiments I placed in the road, five hundred yards in rear of the line, as a reserve. Soon after making these arrangements, which I did on hearing the report of our artillery on the right, Colonel Davies's brigade made its appearance, with him at its head, and inquiring of me the date of my commission found that he ranked me by two days, and he assumed the command. That officer wished a good position for artillery to open, and I immediately proposed the position on our left, near the log house, from which a good view of a large stone house called by the people of the country the enemy's headquarters—might be obtained. Colonel Davies brought up with him the rifled twentypounder battery of Lieutenant Benjamin, and ordered it to open fire immediately.
American Civil War
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