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What of the Regulars? that most of the men would run from fifty to several hundred yards to the rear and continue to fire, — fortunately for the braver ones — very high in the air."

The Confederate forces were estimated at 29,949, and the Federals at 28,568.

Military men now say, quite impartially, that a well trained army, half the size of either, could probably have beaten them both combined. [135]