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Shortly after breakfast on the Morning of June 5, 1864, Union forces at Piedmont, Virginia, launched an attack against the Confederate defenses in an area separated by no more than seventy-five yards of open field. Three men earned Medals of Honor in the fierce battle that followed. Major General Julius Stahel, though wounded, led his division in a rout of the Confederate forces that resulted in 3,000 enemy losses and more than 1,000 captured. General Hunter, in charge of the Union Forces at Piedmont, wrote in his report, "It is but justice to Major General Stahel to state that in the recent engagement he displayed excellent qualities of coolness and gallantry, and that for the final happy result the country is much indebted to his services." |
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