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“The air was blue all around him”
A young Maine officer forever remembered the profanity-spewing Winfield Scott Hancock ordering a charge early in the Peninsula Campaign. Commanded by Col. Edwin C. Mason, the 7th Maine Infantry Regiment had “camped some days near Alexandria waiting our time to … Continue reading
Posted in 160th Anniversary, Battles
Tagged 1st New York Battery, 33rd New York Infantry Regiment, 49th Pennsylvania Infantry Regiment, 5th Wisconsin Infantry Regiment, 6th Maine Infantry Regiment, 7th Maine Infantry Regiment, Andrew Cowan, Bath, Brian Swartz, Charles C. Wheeler, Cub Creek, Dennis Hart Mahan, Dwight Harvey Hill, Edwin C. Mason, George A. Custer, John Davidson, Jubal A. Early, Thomas W. Hyde, William F. “Baldy” Smith, Williamsburg, Winfield Scott Hancock, York River, Yorktown
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