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Civil War Infantry
Twenty Third Infantry
without a reserve, to engage the rebel force, which was from three to five times their number, and which advanced to the charge with three lines of battle, extending along the whole front.
The repeated, desperate, and determined charges of the enemy were every time successfully met, and with a heroism unsurpassed in the annals of war they advanced but to be driven back with terrible slaughter—they advanced upon a line of steel.
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