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Civil War
Third Regiment Infantry
Cromwell never had better troops than those who, under the command of this good officer, swept with fire and steel the whole rebel force from Casey's
camping ground and earthworks, piling it with monuments of their terrible marksmanship. They fired away every one of their sixty cartridges to a man, and then gathered everywhere the unconsumed cartridges from the boxes of the dead and wounded and economically used them. A North Carolina regiment sent against the 3d Michigan had its front file wholly knocked down by a volley. The next file turned to run. A line of bayonets depressed behind them held them fast. '
American Civil War
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