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He sent forward a company of skirmishers from the Fourth Iowa, who soon became sharply engaged with the enemy and the latter opened on us a perfect tornado of round shot, shell, and grape.
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gutenberg.orgGrenville Dodge: “He sent forward a company of skirmishers from the Fourth Iowa, who soon became sharply engaged with the enemy and the…”
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Dodge recounts the intense combat experience faced by his troops as they engaged the enemy with heavy artillery fire.
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I must say this is the first time I ever heard of national honor being sustained by such methods.
It is upheld and maintained today, as it always has been, by the patriotism of our people as represented by our Army in the Civil War, in Cuba, the Philippines, and China.
We were always careful that no cruelties were committed by enlisted men, but whatever was done was by the order of an officer.
The right side is beginning to get a hearing, and when the facts and causes for the action of the Army are generally known, it will be found that our Army is as humane and well-behaved a body of troops as ever went into a foreign country…
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