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American Civil War
Twenty-Fifth Regiment Infantry
About two miles from his encampment he found a spot which suited him. The site chosen for the morrow's battle was truly beautiful. It was a lawn of level ground, carpeted with velvety turf, and thick with trees, which, without the slightest impediment of underbrush, were waving in all the luxuriance of June foliage—a spot which a silvery river
" 'Forsakes its course to fold as with an arm. '
" All night long the men relieved each other in the arduous work, with spade and pick, in throwing up entrenchments. Rifle-pit were dug; a barricade of felled trees was made to check cavalry charges;
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