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Civil War Infantry
Twenty Third Infantry
General Burnside, who witnessed its management, pronounced it a masterly effort against such numbers.
" Night coming On, the enemy growing less troublesome, Colonel Chapin, commanding the brigade, who had been unwell for a number of days, but had refused to leave the field while the enemy was in front, was now suffering so that he was ordered to quit his post, and the command devolved upon Colonel W. E. Hobson, of the 13th Kentucky, who led the men from the field and conducted the retreat to Knoxville.
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