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ITS FLA(1 THE FIltT IN (Hfi’TYSUURO.The Carolina brigade marched to theheld of Gettysburg in -Inly, with well-filled radks. Gen. A 1*, Hill was their leader in place of the dead but immortal Jackson, With him they assaulted HeynokPa corps in McPhemoufa Wood, on July I. Ah at Game's Mill, a battery confronted their advance, and rained shell and canteter into the hrimade, chiefly upon the Ihl regiment. The battery whs doomed. One piece was the pri/a of the 1st, and lhey dashed forward without a halt until their banner wan floating in the town, the llrnl Confederate d ig In Gettysburg.One day later, almost to an hour, at the other flank of the aa ie field, the KJrd Pennsylvania fought gallantly to defend Hound Top with a success equal te Hie Carolinians in lheir charge. The tel lost one officer and nineteen men killed, six officers and ill men wounded— one hundred and twenty in all, which was more than one-half its membership.In the Wilderness battle on May 5, 1H61, Hie 1st,led it* brigade and division Hi an attack on the Confederate left along the Orange turnpike, a couple of miles dislant. Both regiments suffered in the ensuing threw days, the 1st with a loss of sixteen killed and fourteen wounded, besides* six officers killed.
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Union Times
Union, South Carolina, US
Fri, Jun 03, 1904
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