Item - Our Hundred and Thirteen

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Series:	New York Weekly — v. 20 no. 34 — page 5
Subject / Tag:	Poem
Part of:	New York Weekly, v. XX, no. 34, July 13, 1865 (Issue)
Author:	Stroub, W. S., Capt.
Date:	July 13, 1865
Edition Description:	[Our regiment the Fourth Ohio Volunteer Infantry, numbering one hundred and thirteen men, rank and file, was detached, with two or three other decimated ones, at the Battle of Fredericksburg, Dec. 13th, 1862, to make the first assault, as skirmishers, upon the enemy's works in front of the Right Grand Division and centre-thus forming a sort of "forlorn hope," which drew the concentrated fire of nearly the whole rebel army. Before our little column of attack could deploy as skirmishers, while advancing along the street, and through the railroad cut and ravine at the outskirts of the city, it was compelled to run a fearful enfilading fire from the enemy's batteries. It, however, pushed fearlessly on, deployed, and took up the line on which the battle was fought. These battalions were nearly annihilated=ours losing nearly two-thirds of its brave men engaged, coming out of the fight with but forty men, rank and file.]
First Sentence:	One hundred and thirteen brave men