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Civil War Infantry
Twenty Second Regiment Infantry
You must use your steel was the reply. The regiment rushed forward with fixed bayonets and empty muskets, under a most terrific fire of grape and musketry, received the counter charge of the enemy, repulsed and drove them at every point. "
Cartridges all gone. "You must use the bayonet, " says General Whittaker to the 22d The enemy again furiously advance. The sun has gone down on that bloody field; in the twilight it is difficult to distinguish friend from foe.
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