. History of the One Hundred and Sixth Regiment, Pennsylvania Volunteers, 2d Brigade, 2d Division, 2d Corps, 1861-1865 [electronic resource] . ft, was struck in the flank and crumbled ; his broken line passed throughBurns Brigade, who advanced the Sixty-Ninth, Seventy-First Pennsylvaniaand the Nineteenth Massachusetts, and their crushing volleys checked andwith reinforcements drove the advancing enemy from the battle-field, thussaving the Army of the Potomac from being pierced in the center. GeneralMClellan pronounced this success as vital to the movement then in progress,as Franklins was at W

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. History of the One Hundred and Sixth Regiment, Pennsylvania Volunteers, 2d Brigade, 2d Division, 2d Corps, 1861-1865 [electronic resource] . ft, was struck in the flank and crumbled ; his broken line passed throughBurns Brigade, who advanced the Sixty-Ninth, Seventy-First Pennsylvaniaand the Nineteenth Massachusetts, and their crushing volleys checked andwith reinforcements drove the advancing enemy from the battle-field, thussaving the Army of the Potomac from being pierced in the center. GeneralMClellan pronounced this success as vital to the movement then in progress,as Franklins was at White Oak Swamp and Porters at Malvern Hill, twelvemiles apart. The fifth day at Malvern Hill Burns Brigade was sent to theextreme right to meet a supposed flank movement of the enemy and returned,and was under close artillery fire during the battle. After arriving atHarrisons Bar the enemy again attacked with artillery, and Burns Brigadewent to the front, but the firing ceased, returned to their camp. The SevenDays Fight was over, this brigade taking nosmall part in that movement, themost delicate and dangerous in war,—change of Pholotf/pe,

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