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Charg the rebel lines 29

Col Chamberlain gave the order fix bayonets, "Charge bayonets Charge" and off we went with a wild yell that surprised the enemy, they at that time being not over four rods from us. They had but little time to choose between surrender or cold steel, so the most of their front line dropped their rifles and stepped to our rear for safety. I took two prisaners from behind a rock where I had been selecting my targets for some time and others lay there lifeless. I passed them to the rear and made my way with the rest of our survivers after the retreating foe. We took two hundred prisoners in the charge. The prisoners say they had a whole brigade massed on our left. They say that their brigade was Stonewall Jackson's brigade and never was repulsed before. Two of their regts was the 15th Alabama and the 4th Georgia and they fought like devils. After we had cared for wounded and buried the dead we had orders to assume and hold a hill that was still in our front and we went with but little opossitian