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Yankee
Twenth-ninth Regiment Infantry
by the enemy under Hood, and was engaged with the enemy on the 7th of December at Overall Creek. On the 13th it was sent out as the escort of a railroad train to procure fuel, when it was attacked by a superior force of infantry and artillery near Winchester church, when a severe battle ensued in which the enemy was repulsed with loss, the regiment losing seventeen killed, wounded, and missing. The . enemy having taken up the track, the regiment succeeded in relaying it under fire and saving the train,
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