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Civil War
Twenty Fourth Regiment Infantry
It arrived near Gettysburg on the 1st of July, and went immediately into action, the division to which it was attached being the first infantry force under fire in that sanguinary struggle.
"When lo! the dread brigade called Iron, flashed In armour bright as on the foe they dashed; And when they met, a a bloody slaughter spread The verdant plain, like autumn leaves, with dead. "
This brigade had become known throughout the army of the Potomac as the "Iron Brigade, " and under that additional designation its record in the war has passed into history.
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