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American Civil War
TWENTIETH REGIMENT INFANTRY
We soon received another hundred men and re-crossed the river in the presence of a vastly superior force without further loss.
"I consider this one of the most notable minor actions of the war. We see a handful of men without supports, and retreat cut off by a stream 150 yards wide, deep and rapid, without entrenchments, repulse the charge of a large brigade, and then in turn drive that brigade with the bayonet, then maintain a desperate fight with an entire division of nearly 4,000 men, and finally withdrawing from the field in good order,
Michigan Infantry
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