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Civil War
Third Regiment Infantry
April 28th, 1863, we broke camp and once more moved towards the Rappahannock, crossed it at United States Ford May 1st, and moved up near to the Chancellor House and went into position, supporting the first line of battle. On the 2d we were moved to the front and drove the enemy four miles, but soon found that he had turned the right flank of the 11th corps, and that we were nearly cut off, but fell back to near our position of the morning before, and there charged the woods at 10 P. M., and opened communication with the main army. At daylight of the 3d we were fired into by the enemy, and after a long and severe struggle were forced back one mile to a new position, which we held until the morning of the 6th, when we re-crossed the river and occupied our old camps.
American Civil War
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