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U. S. Civil War
Twenty Seventh Regiment Infantry
Nevertheless General Hartranft reported that he had some of his troops in better shape, and thought they could hold the position if ammunition could be supplied. I had already brought ammunition up to within two hundred yards of the crater, and immediately sent in ten thousand rounds by men of the 51st Pennsylvania, part of whom were shot in the attempt.
The enemy had now full sweep of the ground between the crater and our rifle pits, and at my request Colonel Guy Henry, commanding a brigade in the 18th corps, and General Ferero, with detachments of colored troops, began three covered ways towards the crater, from which also the men began to work from their side toward us.
Michigan
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