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On July 21, 1861, at 11:00 a.m., the 8th Georgia Infantry of Bartow's 2nd Brigade, Army of the Shenandoah, C.S.A., under Lt. Col. W.M. Gardner, advanced straight into heavy enemy fire, entered a thicket to within 100 yards of the enemy, held their fire until ordered to commence firing, and for 30 minutes endured the fighting in the wood with disciplined, deliberate aim until ordered to retire. Pvt. Robert Grant recalled that most of the men remained cool and would load, pick a man, and take deliberate aim, and that without the order to retire, not one man would have left his post.
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