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Rebellion Record: a Diary of American Events: Documents and Narratives, Volume 6. (ed. Frank Moore), chapter 193 (search)
r, with his command, returned to the regiment. In the forenoon of the same day the regiment was ordered out on a reconnoissance. It marched under command of Colonel Hecker, and after it had proceeded in a southerly direction as far as Carpenter's farm, we received your order to join the brigade, which order was immediately complttle from the top of the hill. The regiment fell back fifteen yards in good order, leaving about seventy killed and wounded on the ground it had occupied. Colonel Hecker then took the flag in his hand, cheering his men to make a charge as soon as the enemy should arrive at the proper distance; but observing that the right of tour division, in connection with Colonel Buschbeck's brigade of General Steinwehr's division, formed behind two of my regiments — the Eighty--second Illinois, Colonel Hecker, and the One Hundred and Fifty-seventh New-York, Colonel Brown--and occupied the rifle-pits, the Second brigade of the Second division having been detached fr