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Massachusetts in the charge by Mahone's division.
Corporal Herndon's name was one of those inscribed upon the roll of honor read to every regiment in the service at the first dress parade after its receipt.
Slaton's Macon artillery shared also in the honors of this fight.
In all the fighting around Petersburg and Richmond, Georgia was nobly illustrated by her gallant sons.
Had the Confederate, armies been as successful everywhere else as they were in Virginia through all the summer of 1864, that year would have witnessed the triumph of the Southern cause.
Let us now see what was happening on other parts of the general field, in the same period as the important events just described in Virginia.
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