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American Civil War
Twenty-Fifth Regiment Infantry
Colonel Moore replied:
Present my compliments to General Morgan, and say to him that this being the Fourth of July I cannot entertain the proposition to surrender.
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" Colonel Allston, Morgan's chief of staff, said: ' I hope you will not consider me as dictatorial, on this occasion; I will be frank; you see the breach we have made upon your works with our battery; you cannot expect to repulse General Morgan's whole division with your little command; you have resisted us gallantly and deserve credit for it, and now I hope you will save useless bloodshed by reconsidering the message to General Morgan.
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