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The Fifth Regiment lost more men in battle than any other infantry regiment in the Union Army; the Seventh lost more officers in a single engagement, Fort Wagner, than any other infantry regiment in the Union Army; that the men of the Twelfth and Thirteenth regiments were the first organized bodies to enter Richmond; that the losses of the Ninth and Sixteenth regiments from exposures and other causes place the debt due to them for devotion and sacrifice among the first in the fateful catalogue...*
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