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American Civil War
Twenty-Fifth Regiment Infantry
breastworks were thrown up to stand between the bosoms of the patriots and the bullets of the rebel foe. On the night of the 3d the gallant 200 took possession of these hurriedly constructed works, to beat back a small army of more than as many thousand.
" 'Theirs not to reason why;
Theirs not to make reply;
Theirs but to do and die.
"With not one word of murmuring, and with not one straggler, these heroic men planted themselves behind their frail redoubts to wait the oncoming surge of battle.
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