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| + | Written a recount[?] this Regiment has been engaged in the most active + honorable service. Taking a conspicuous part in three fights in as many different states, within that time + in all of their doing as well as the best. At the great battle of Gettysburg, however, the Regiment now distin-guishes honor. We were assigned to the extreme left [underlined] of our line of battle, where the fiercest assault was made. A whole Rebel Brigade was opposed to this Regiment, charging on us with desperate fury, in column of Regiments, so that we had to contend with a front of fresh troops [underlined] after each struggle. After Two hours fighting on the defensive, our loss had been so great, + the remaining men here [inserted] so much exhausted, having fire all our "sixp-ounds" + all the cartridges we carried getting from the scattered boxes of the fallen around us friend + foe, I saw no way left but to take the offensive [double underline] + accordingly, we charged on the enemy. Trying "cold steel" on them. The result was we drove them entirely out of the field, killing + wounding one hundred + fifty [150] of them + taking three hundred [underlined] + eight [underlined] [308] + two hundred + seventy five [275] | ||
Revision as of 20:16, 4 April 2017
� the best possible condition, physically + morally.
Written a recount[?] this Regiment has been engaged in the most active + honorable service. Taking a conspicuous part in three fights in as many different states, within that time + in all of their doing as well as the best. At the great battle of Gettysburg, however, the Regiment now distin-guishes honor. We were assigned to the extreme left [underlined] of our line of battle, where the fiercest assault was made. A whole Rebel Brigade was opposed to this Regiment, charging on us with desperate fury, in column of Regiments, so that we had to contend with a front of fresh troops [underlined] after each struggle. After Two hours fighting on the defensive, our loss had been so great, + the remaining men here [inserted] so much exhausted, having fire all our "sixp-ounds" + all the cartridges we carried getting from the scattered boxes of the fallen around us friend + foe, I saw no way left but to take the offensive [double underline] + accordingly, we charged on the enemy. Trying "cold steel" on them. The result was we drove them entirely out of the field, killing + wounding one hundred + fifty [150] of them + taking three hundred [underlined] + eight [underlined] [308] + two hundred + seventy five [275]