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Civil War
Third Regiment Infantry
These were supported by Captain Breth-schneider's light infantry battalion, which also advanced down the ravine, accompanied by Lieutenant Prine, corps of United States Engineers, who went for the purpose of ascertaining the enemy's position, he volunteering his services for that particular purpose. Colonel Davies also threw forward a company of skirmishers on his right. The enemy's skirmishers were in force in the woods in front, and covered themselves with trees and rifle-pits, which had been thrown up before. Our two advance companies were driven back; the enemy pursued, and were in turn driven back by the spherical case-shot of Greene's battery, and I ordered back the light infantry, and also the two companies, to the former position.
American Civil War
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