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Civil War Infantry
Twenty Third Infantry
losing a standard-bearer and several sergeants of Company I wounded, but escaping wonderfully, by the favorable lay of the ground, that shower of lead. We cast a glance toward the high point from which burst forth the smoke from the enemy's batteries. A regiment in advance of all others had climbed to within a hundred yards of the battery. A horseman had taken its star spangled banner and rode forward to the very mouth of the cannon, then turned around and waved it to his valiant followers.
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