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Washington D.C. Feb 22nd 83
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To the Members of the Military Committee U.S.
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Senators
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Mortifying less than a strong conviction of duty owed to one of the brave defenders of our Nation's honor could induce me to intrude for a moment upon the already burdened, and limited time of action yet remaining to your Honorable Body.
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During the late Battle of Fredericktown the 21st Massachusetts Regiment of Militia were ordered to charge upon a Battery across an open field; in the terrible fire which assailed them the color were three times in quick succession bereft of their Support; the third time they were seized by Sergeant Thomas Plunkett of Co. E, and borne on some three hundred yards of open space when a shell from the Enemy Battery in its murderous course killed three men of the regiment and shattered both arms.
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