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On July 21, 1861, at 11:00 a.m., the 2nd New Hampshire Infantry, part of the 2nd Brigade under Burnside in the Second Division under Hunter of the Army of Northeastern Virginia, U.S.A., under Colonel Gilman Marston, rushed to the front with the 71st New York State Militia on its left and opened fire with buck and ball on Confederate troops who were well concealed by dense brush along a rail fence at the edge of the woods; despite the poor visibility, the men aimed low and fired steadily in what Pvt. Martin Haynes called a square stand-up fight.
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