Hi y'all. Before we get to the action at the P-Troordshire, we wanted to take a couple of minutes here at the beginning of the show to do a bit of self-promotion.

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The order was given to strip for the fight. The men carried their scanty change of clothing wrapped in their blankets and thrown over their shoulders.

Each regiment piled these in a heap and each left a man with a baggage.

The field officers dismounted from their horses. The reason for this being that an order had been issued some time before that no officer below the rank of Brigadier General should ride into battle because of the fact that the government had a great deal of difficulty in replacing the horses killed.

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