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the left of the entire line of battle on the afternoon of the 2nd. A brigade of enemy attempting to turn this flank, fell with the utmost fury upon the Regiment and after a protracted and bloody struggle were repulsed. The Regiment charging upon them, routed them and took several hundred stand of arms and over three hundred prisoners included twelve commissioned officers. After the enemy had been repulsed along the entire line, the 20th by order of Gen Sykes changed and drove the enemy from a hill on the front and left taking 24 prisoners and one commissioned officer. The total loss of the Regiment was 3 commissioned offices killed and mortally wounded and 134 men killed and wounded. On the third day the Brigade was under heavy fire of Artillery but took no active part. From the 5th until the 10th marched in heavy and incessant rains through Middletown and over South Mountain and on