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Civil War Infantry
Twenty Second Regiment Infantry
The following is from the report of Colonel Whittaker:
My command was then moved by the flank in two lines at double-quick time up the valley for nearly a mile, under a heavy fire of shell from a rebel battery. Several were killed and wounded in this charge. Arriving at the point occupied by General Thomas, we found him sorely pressed and yielding stubbornly to superior numbers. I "was directed to drive the enemy from a ridge on which he had concentrated his forces in great numbers, supported strongly by artillery,
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