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On August 28, 1862, at 7:00 p.m., the 2nd Wisconsin Infantry, commanded by Col. Edgar O'Conner and serving in the 4th Brigade under Gibbon, First Division under King, Third Corps under McDowell, Army of Virginia, U.S.A., faced a fierce engagement in which, as Pvt. Nathaniel Rollins recalled, Confederate infantry poured from the woods by the thousands while the regiment stood on the brow of a hill in an open field under an hour and fifteen minutes of terrible fire that turned the hilltop, valley, and wooded hillside beyond into a continuous sheet of flame, with bullets still filling the air after darkness fell and the stars came out.
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