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Jacob Harrison Allspaugh diary, January 1864-July 1864
1864-05-14 Page 03
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regiments of that Corps we moved to the front. In an open country stood the rebel works and to get into this plain we had to descend an almost perpendicular bank of a hundred feet. Down we went getting much broken in so-doing and charged forward towards the enemy's works. A heavy fire greeted us both of artillery and musketry and we sought cover in small clump of bushes where we
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regiments of that Corps we moved to the front. In an open country stood the rebel works and to get into this plain we had to descend an almost perpendicular bank of a hundred feet. Down we went getting much broken in so-doing and charged forward towards the enemy's works. A heavy fire greeted us both of artillery and musketry and we sought cover in small clump of bushes where we
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