. . ndsmoke, up to the very muz-zles of the blazing officers and men did allthat was possible to humaneffort, but in vain. Theposition was too well de-fended and the natural ob-stacles were too great to beovercome. The battle waser in half an hour, butin that brief time the Six-ty-fourth had suffered mostgrievously. The long listof casualties abundantly at-tests its mettle and endur-ance. The fierceness ofthe combat is shown bythe fact that the 1<the Sixty-fourth duringthose thirty minutes wereequal to those which it s
. . ndsmoke, up to the very muz-zles of the blazing officers and men did allthat was possible to humaneffort, but in vain. Theposition was too well de-fended and the natural ob-stacles were too great to beovercome. The battle waser in half an hour, butin that brief time the Six-ty-fourth had suffered mostgrievously. The long listof casualties abundantly at-tests its mettle and endur-ance. The fierceness ofthe combat is shown bythe fact that the 1<the Sixty-fourth duringthose thirty minutes wereequal to those which it suffered during the two days fighting atChickamauga, or in the desperate struggle at Stone Face was reddened by the blood of nineteen dead and morethan sixty wounded from that little band of heroes. Colonel Al-exander Mcllvaine, that lion-hearted soldier, and the brave andfaithful Lieutenant Thomas H. Ehlers, were among the national flag of the regiment was carried into the fight bySergeant William D. Patterson, of Company Q, The staff was. DANIEL S. MARVIN,fOMiANY H, SIXTY FOURTH. TWO COLOR-BEARERS KILLED. [May,
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