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U. S. Civil War
Twenty Seventh Regiment Infantry
The "American Conflict" says:
" Wright's and Smith's assaults were less determined at all events less sanguinary than Hancock's, and Warren having a long line to hold was content to hold it. Burnside swung two of his divisions around to flank the enemy's left, which he hotly engaged, and must have worsted, had the battle along our front been protracted; but that could not be. Twenty minutes after the first shot was fired, fully 10,000 of our men were stretched writhing on the sod, or still and calm in death,
Michigan
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