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infantry behind the rock fence poured volley after volley into the advancing ranks.
The men fell like stalks of grain before the reaper, but still they closed the gaps and pressed forward through that pitiless storm.
The two advance brigades have thus far done the fighting.
Armistead has endured the terrible ordeal without firing a gun; his brave followers have not changed their guns from the right shoulder.
Great gaps have been torn in their ranks; their field and company officers have fallen; color-bearer after color-bearer has been shot down, but still they never faltered.
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