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At 3:00 p.m. on August 29, 1862, the 1st Massachusetts Infantry, commanded by Col. Robert Godwin and serving in Grover’s 1st Brigade, Hooker’s Second Division, Heintzelman’s Third Corps, Army of the Potomac, advanced without artillery or supports. The regiment reached a railroad bank, where enemy troops rose from behind the embankment and poured a tremendous volley into the Union lines. The effect was terrible, with men dropping in scores, writhing and trying to crawl back, or lying dead where they fell, and the line began to waver and fell back into the forest.
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