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The regiment participated in the battle of Mission Ridge, and was among the first to reach the top of the mountain. In this charge it was commanded by Major J. J. Hanna, who was highly complimented for his bravery and effi- cieney. In ascending the Ridge, Lieutenant J. S. Scott, Color Sergeant Jacob Wetzell, Color Cor- porals D. W. Leach and Jolm Meredith, Corporal E. J. Mauche, Privates Kluger, Elsom, Sewers and Heffing were killed, and a large number wounded, many of whom subsequently died.
On March 16, 1864, the regiment, after having reenlisted as veterans, started for Ohio, on a fur- lough of thirty days. At the end of their fur- lough the men reported promptly at Camp Den- nison, and on the 22d of April again started for the field. Arriving at Nashville the regiment was compelled, for lack of transportation, to march to Cowan's Station. It joined Sherman's forces at Buzzard's Roost on the 11th of May.
On May 14, the regiment, with the army, moved through Snake Creek Gap to a point near Resaca,
where the enemy was met and engaged. At this place Color Sergeant John A. Compton and four others were killed and twenty-six men wounded.
At Pumpkin-Vine Creek, and at Dallas, the enemy was again engaged. In these affairs the regiment lost five killed and nineteen wounded. Kenesaw Mountain was reached in the evening of June 14. During this siege two men were killed. At Marietta, July 4, another engagement was had with the enemy, in which the regiment lost one man killed and seven wounded. The next stand was at the crossing of the Chatta- hoochie river. In this affair the regiment es- caped without loss. On the 21st the regiment lost one man killed and ten wounded. July 22 brought the regiment and the army before Atlanta. Dur- ing the siege nine men were wounded, two of whom subsequently died.
On September I the Sixty-ninth took part in the fight at Jonesboro, and lost Lieutenant Jacob S. Pierson, Martin V. Baily, Color Sergeant Allen L. Jobes, of Company D, and five men killed and thirty-six wounded, some of whom died in a few hours after the fight. This battle caused the evacuation of Atlanta, and the national forces occupied that city.
The regiment participated in the subsequent. chase after Hood, through the upper part of Georgia and into Alabama. It then returned to Atlanta and joined Sherman's march to the sea. On that march it lost one man by disease and four captured. Arriving in front of Savannah, it took position in the front line. In the cam- paign through the Carolinas, the regiment was engaged with the enemy near Goldsboro', North Carolina, March 19, 1865, and lost two killed and eight wounded. This was the last affair in which it participated.
Then came the march through Richmond, the review at Washington, the transfer to Louisville, and lastly the final muster out of the service, on the 17th of July, 1865.
SEVENTY-SIXTH REGIMENT.
Muster roll of Company G, Seventy-sixth Ohio.
OFFICERS.
James Stewart, Captain. John Winstrode, First Lieutenant.
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Richard W. Burt, Second Lieutenant. Jacob A. Jury, First Sergeant. James G. Evans, Second Sergeant. Rufus W. Hentrom, Third Sergeant. Hiram Vandyburg, Fourth Sergeant. Denton Whips, Fifth Sergeant. Martin Armstrong, First Corporal. Harry W-, Second Corporal. Jacob Rumer, Third Corporal. Horace Reynolds, Fourth Corporal. Thomas J. Davis, Fifth Corporal. Lewis Williams, Sixth Corporal. Daniel Heckard, Seventh Corporal. George Kinupf, Eighth Corporal. David Jones, Musician. Charles H. Paramore, Musician. Joseph Martin, Wagoner.
Privates-Reuben Abbott, William E. Boylan, Edward Beverly, John Binkley, Isaac Bounds, Henry R. Bumer, Thomas Coffman, William H. Coffman, James Carnahan, Henry Davis, jr., Henry Davis, sr., James H. Dame, Cornelius Dis- pennet, Samuel Dispennet, Asias Deacon, Thomas Dutroe, Philip W. Evans, Aaron Evans, Thomas Evans, Thomas Egans, Perry Flowers, Jacob Fet- zel, Henry H. German, John Gillespie, Solomon Holtsbury, Isaac Holtsbury, Philip Harter, Cal- vin Hart, William Hall, Thomas Hancock, Crosby Johnson, Israel Jones, John R. Jones, Leander Jennings, Frederick Krauss, Adam Lawyer, William Lyle, Peter MeKeiver, John. Mitchell, James Madix, Paul Murphy, Henry H. Marvin, William Oard, William Oliver, James M. Par- mer, Jeread Price, Thomas Pool, David Patter- son, Reason Roby, John Rickets, Barney Rogers, David Sams, Patrick Sullivan, Isaac Switzer, Haus P. C Smith, Hugh Tagart, Lemuel Thomp- son, Abram Walker, John Walker, George Whips, Silas Ward, John Webber, James Wiley, John Wilson, Emanuel Yiesley, George White- head.
Captain Charles R. Woods, of the Ninth United States Infantry, having been authorized to raise a regiment for the three years' service, recruited and organized the Seventy-sixth Ohio Volunteer Infantry, at Newark, Ohio, on the 9th of February, 1862. The regiment left Newark, and, proceeding via Paducah, Kentucky, to Fort
Donelson, took an active part in the engagement at that place. On the 6th of March it moved to the Tennessee river, and then up the river to Crump's Landing, where it remained until the 31st, when it marched to Adamsville, and took position in General Lew Wallace's division, in the right wing of General Grant's army. The divis- ion made a forced march to Pittsburgh Landing on the 6th of April, and was in line of battle by dark, and during the entire engagement was con- stantly exposed to the enemy's fire. In the latter part of April the regiment formed a part of a reconnoitering party toward Corinth, charging the rebels, driving them from their position and de- stroying their camp equipage. It formed a part of the grand reserve during the advance on Corinth. and, after the evacuation, moved to Memphis, arriving on the 11th of June, having marched 130 miles with wagon supplies. The Seventy-sixth moved down the river on the 24th of July, and encamped near Helena, Arkansas.
In the reorganization of the Army of the South- west the Seventy-sixth was placed in the second brigade, commanded by General P. J. Osterhaus. On the 16th of August the regiment, forming a part of an expedition of observation, moved down the Mississippi, landed at Milliken's Bend on the 18th, surprised the Thirty-first Louisiana Regi- ment, and captured all its camp and garrison equipage. The enemy was followed nine miles, and forty prisoners were captured. The fleet moved down to the mouth of the Yazoo, and a detachment, comprising a portion of the Seventy- sixth, proceeded up the Yazoo, surprised Haines' Bluff, and captured four siege guns, two field pieces and a large quantity of fixed ammunition. The expedition returned to Helena on the 27th. The regiment embarked for St. Genevieve, Mis- souri, early in October, and, remaining a week, moved with the division to Pilot Knob, where it encamped for rest and reorganization. It be- came very healthy and efficient during its stay here, and on the 12th of November returned to St. Genevieve and embarked for Camp Steele, Mississippi.
On the 21st of December it formed a part of General Sherman's expedition for Vicksburgh. The fleet arrived at Johnson's Landing, on the Yazoo, on the 26th, and the division, then com-
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manded by General Steele, disembarked; and Hovey's brigade, of which the Seventy-sixth was a part, made a feint on Haines' Bluff, and then took position on the extreme left of the army. On the 20th the division moved to the main army at Chickasaw Bayou; and, during the battle, the regiment was held in reserve.
General Sherman having abandoned the assault on Vicksburg, the troops re-embarked and pro- ceeded up the Mississippi, landing at Arkansas Post on the evening of the 10th of January, 1863. That night the regiment marched six miles through mud and water, and by two next morn- ing the troops occupied the cantonments of the enemy. Shortly after daylight they moved upon the enemy's works, and about one o'clock the Seventy-sixth charged within 100 yards of the rifle pits, halted, opened fire, and held the posi- tion for three hours, when the enemy surren- dered. On the 14th, after burning the canton- ments of the enemy, it returned to the river, and, embarking on the 23d, the troops landed at Young's Point, Louisiana. On the night of the 14th of February, two non-commissioned officers of Company B were killed and four disabled by lightning. During the entire month heavy de- tails were made from the regiment to work upon the canal then in progress across the neck of land opposite Vicksburg. On the 2d of April, the regiment, with Steele's division, proceeded on transports up the river, to Greenville, Mississippi. The command marched down Deer creek after the rebel force under Colonel Ferguson, and on the 7th made an attack and routed them. The command returned to Greenville, after destroy- ing $1,000,000 worth of cotton and corn, and bringing off a large number of cattle, horses and mules. About 300 negroes followed the troops, and were enlisted in colored regiments.
On the 24th the Seventy-sixth returned to Young's Point, and on the 26th moved to Milli- ken's Bend, and prepared to march with the grand army southward. On the 2d of May the Fifteenth Corps started for Hard Times Land- ing, where it arrived on the 6th and crossed to the Grand Gulf. The Seventy-sixth moved east- ward, and, at Fourteen Mile creek, the division was attacked by a mounted force of the enemy. Colonel Wood's brigade pushed across the creek
in the face of a sharp fire, and drove the enemy back. At Jackson the regiment charged the works on the enemy's left. The works were evacuated, and the city surrendered. On the 16th the corps marched for Vicksburg, and on the 18th took position in the line of investment. The next day the regiment pushed along the foot of the bluff near the river, and established itself in position six hundred yards from the main lincs of the enemy. The batteries of the enemy in front of the Seventy-sixth were silenced, and none of his guns could be manned except those of the water batteries. Heavy details were con- stantly made for strengthening the works. In the course of several nights eight guns were taken off the sunken gunboat Cincinnati and placed in position, with telling effect. After the surrender of Vicksburg the regiment marched in pursuit of Johnston, and arrived at Jackson on the 10th of July. While here it was chiefly em- ployed in foraging and making reconnoissances. On the 23d the regiment marched for Big Black Bridge, where the corps went into camp for rest and reorganization.
On the 23d of September the division (General Osterhaus in command) embarked at Vicksburg for Memphis, and on the 30th moved from the latter place, by railroad, to Corinth. During the months of October and November the regiment marched and skirmished in Northern Alabama and Tennessee, arriving at Chattanooga in time to join General Hooker in the assault on Look- out Mountain ; was engaged at Mission Ridge, and on the 27th of November charged up Tay- lor's Ridge under a heavy fire, suffering a fearful loss. In one company of twenty men eight were killed and eight wounded, and seven men were shot down while carrying the regimental colors.
After marching and bivouacking in various places, on the Ist of January, 1864, the regiment went into camp for the winter at Paint Rock, Alabama.
On the 4th of January, 1864, about two-thirds of the regiment re-enlisted as veterans, and leave was granted to proceed to Ohio. On the 30th it moved via Nashville, Louisville and Cincinnati to Columbus, Ohio, and on the 8th of February took the train for Newark. The regiment dis- embarked one mile from the city and moved into
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town in a column by company. It was enthusi- astically welcomed by a large concourse of citi- zens; specches were made, and a sumptuous re- past was partaken of at City Hall. The mem- bers were furloughed to their homes. The Seventy-sixth went away 962strong, and returned in two years with less than 300. It returned to Cincinnati on the 15th of March, and proceeded vin Louisville, Nashville and Huntsville to the old camp at Paint Roek. On the 1st of May it broke camp and moved with the division for Chattanooga. At Bridgeport it was presented with a new stand of colors, from the citizens of Newark. The troops arrived at Chattanooga on the 6th, and pushed forward twelve miles. On the 9th the regiment moved through Snake Creek Gap, and continued moving forward, skirmishing and fortifying, until the 14th at 6 o'clock in the evening, when the regiment, with the brigade, charged across the fields under a hot fire, and gained a footing on the first line of hills west of Resaca. On the 16th, the enemy having evacuated, the Seventy-sixth moved through Resaca and Adairsville to Dallas. Hardie's corps assaulted the lines of the Fifteenth Corps on the 28th, and was repulsed, leaving many dead on the field, some of them within 50 yards of the works in front of the Seventy-sixth Ohio.
On the 26th, the regiment moved out of the works, with the division, to the West Point and Mont- gomery railroad, which they destroyed, marched southward toward Jonesboro, and on the night of the 30th formed in line across Flint river. The next day the rebels charged the line and were repulsed, the Seventy-sixth taking an active share in the engagement, without the protection of rifle-pits.
On the Sth of September, the division moved to East Point and eneamped for rest and re- organization. On the 4th of October, the regi- menterossed the Chattahoochie, marched through Marietta, north of Kenesaw Mountain, near Adairsville, through Resaca, through Snake Creek Gap, and on the 16th skirmished with the enemy at Ship's Gap. On the next day the regiment marched through Lafayette, and on the 18th moved south through Summerville and bivou- acked. Here the non-veterans were mustered out. The regiment moved with the army to Little River, Cave Springs, near to Atlanta. On the 15th of November, the Fifteenth Corps cut loose from Atlanta and moved southward with the right wing of the army, averaging fifteen miles per day and foraging off the country.
The route of the Fifteenth Corps was vie Mc- Donough, Indian Springs, Clinton and Irwin- town, crossing the Macon and Augusta railroad twenty miles east of Macon; thence eastward across the Oconee river to Ogeechee, and down the west bank of that stream to the mouth of the Cannonchee; thence across the Ogeechee east- ward to Savannah, where it arrived on the 18th of December, being twenty-six days out from Atlanta.
On the 1st of June the corps moved to the left, near New Hope church, then to Acworth, then south, and so on, each day advancing and fortify- ing, until, on the 22d, it occupied a position near the railroad at the foot of Kenesaw Mountain. The Seventy-sixth remained in the rifle-pits until after the rebels evacuated it, then moved to Ross- ville ; thence across the Chattahootchie, through Decatur, to within four miles of Atlanta, on the After the evacuation, the regiment performed provost guard duty in the city until the 9th of January, 1865, when it embarked on the gunboat Winona for Beaufort, South Carolina. From Beaufort it marched to Gardner's Corners, where preparations were made for the march northward. and on the 31st the command broke camp on the " Campaign of the Carolinas." 20th of July. On the 22d, the rebels captured four twenty-pound Parrott guns, and the Seven- ty-sixth Ohio and the Thirtieth lowa, of the first brigade, were the first to drive the enemy from the works and to recapture the guns. About noon on the 28th, the enemy attacked the whole line of the Fifteenth Corps, and three successive charges were made, each one proving unavailing. On the 16th of February the troops formed on the outskirts of Columbia, and the Seventy-sixth was engaged in skirmishing until the evacuation of the city, when it again performed provost 1,000 of the rebel dead were found in front of the Fifteenth Corps, On the 30th of August, the skirmish line in front of the division was advanced and the Seventy-sixth captured fifty prisoners. | guard duty for four days. The troops arrived at
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Fayetteville on the 12th of March; crossed Cape Fear and Black rivers; moved to Bentonville, where they engaged the enemy, and thence vin Goldsboro' to Raleigh, where the Seventy-sixth remained until Johnston's surrender.
On the 30th of April the army broke eamp and marched ria Richmond and Hanover C. H., to Washington, reaching the Capitol on the 23d of May, 1865. The Seventy-sixth shared in the grand review, and shortly after moved to Louisville, Kentucky, where it was mustered out. It then proceeded to Columbus, Ohio, where, on the 24th of July, 1865, it was discharged. This regiment participated in fifty-four battles; moved 9,625 miles on foot, by rail and by water; passed through the rebellious States of Kentucky, Mis- souri, Arkansas, Tennessee, Louisiana, Missis- sippi, Alabama, Georgia, South Carolina, North Carolina and Virginia. Two hundred and forty- one men were wounded «in battle; 351 died on the field or in hospitals; 222 earry scars as evi- dence of their struggle with the enemy, and 282 contracted the seeds of disease.
CHAPTER XL.
WAR OF THE REBELLION-CONTINUED.
The Ninety-Seventh-Rosters of Companies H and I-Re- view by John M. Compton-Historieal Record of the Regi- ment-Correspondence and Reminiscences.
THE Ninety-seventh was recruited in the eoun- ties of Muskingum, Morgan, Guernsey and Coshocton. Coshocton claims Companies H and I, whose muster rolls at enlistment were as fol- lows:
Muster roll of Company H:
OFFICERS.
C. C. Nichols, Captain. Noah McClain, First Lieutenant. C. M. Mathews, Second Lieutenant Milton H. Lakin, First Sergeant. Baxter Ricketts, Second Sergeant. Nathaniet B. Mills, Third Sergeant. George Coggins, Fourth Sergeant. Jesse S. Lake, First Corporal. William F. Bunton, Second Corporal.
Jeremiah Peart, Third Corporal. Elijah C. Richards, Fourth Corporal. Stephen Zuek, Fifth Corporal. Jesse J. Deviney, Sixth Corporal. Daniel Elliott, Seventh Corporal. George Smith, Eighth Corporal. Spencer Fry, Franklin Newell, Musicians. Richard Roll, Teamster.
Privates .- David E. Almack, Aco. W. Bricker, George W. Boring, John Barrett, David Balo, William Blenning, John Blackburn, Benjamin Bush, John Bush, Stephen Balo, Abram Balo, Frank Cattrell, John M. Compton, William Col- lins, William Clough, John Chicken, Joseph Clark, Newton G. Dunn, Jared Doolittle, Charles Emmerson, David Evans, Henry Foster, John B. Frey, Abram Farquar, Lewis Williams, Robert Gould, Samuel Harris, William Hook, William Haines, Adam Hogle, David Houser, John F. Hummer, Christopher Hall, George Hagans, Joseph House, Alfred Shultz, Levi Harmon, George Hinkin, George Holsworth, William Ishmall, William James, George W. Johnson, James Jar- vis, Benjamin F. Jones, David Jenkins, Christian Krouss, Joseph Layton, Samuel H. Lynch, John Maston, Isaac McNabb, John Moore, Oliver MeQuine, John G. Mackey, Joseph H. Moore, Thomas Morgan, Sylvester Norman, George Nixon, George R. Niehols, William Owens, David Owens, Elias Oden, George Page, Robert Price, Nathan Price, William A.' Rannels, William Rodgers, John W. Richards, William Skillman, James Sears, Albert Smith, Mark Trumbull, Joseph Trumbull, Alfred B. Walford, Morgan Williams, Daniel Williams, J. C. Walford, Jacob Wiker, Hiram Wilson, Thomas Westmoreland, Isaac Wiggins, John Wiggins, Thomas Youngs.
Muster roll of Company I:
OFFICERS.
Emmanuel Shaffer, Captain. Martin Weiser, First Lieutenant.
G. W. Smailes, Second Lieutenant. A. B. Barton, First Sergeant. James McClure, Second Sergeant. George Jack, Third Sergeant. William Davis, Fourth Sergeant. William C. Harrison, Fifth Sergeant.
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Jules Suitt, First Corporal.
Joseph Cooper, Second Corporal. Albert Graves, Third Corporal. Peter Miller, Fourth Corporal. Daniel W. Simmons, Fifth Corporal. T. J. Mc Bride, Sixth Corporal. Albert Taylor, Seventh Corporal. J. J. Emmerson, Eighth Corporal.
Privates .- Samuel Browing, John E. Baker, Ed- win Birchfield, W. J. Boyd, Henry Babcock, Tu- nis S. Brown,. Richard Cassner, William Coy, Warren Clemens, J. W. Coulter, Charles Clark, John Day, Samuel Dickison, Eli Dickson, James Dwyer, James Dillon, Isaac Dusenberry, Charles P. Ellis, Albert Emmerson, Crispin Foster, Charles Funk, Daniel Fortune, Daniel Felton, James Felton, John W. Flag, James W. Grover, Clint J. Goodner, Benjamin Howell, Martin Howell, Wil- liam Hughes, Christopher Huttinger, Charles Hawk, Thomas Hamilton, A. J. Hughes, Freder- ick Harbaugh, Henry Infiekl, David King, Ira Riser, W. W. Kennedy, John Kepler, J. T. Lacey, Jacob Lerch, Alexander McClure, William Mc- Eveny, F. A. Mobley, William S. Marshall, James Murphy, George McCreary, Jabez Norman, George W. Newell, Charles Norman, William Porter, James Riser, John Robson, Peter Reny, William Roderick, Henry Pick, Harrison Stock- man, Coan Seward, Martin Sowers, George Starkey, Hamilton Saxton, Samuel Smailes, San- uel Sharron, George Shaffer, Robert Thornsley, James Treanor, Mathas Tapzin, Joseph Thorns- ley, George Toland, William Toland, James Thomas, Adam Tincel, Salathial Wright, Henry Williams, John Wright, W. R. Wilson, John West, James Wolfe, John Worthington, George Wieken, Joseph 1. Wilson, William Weiser, Adam Weiser, John Watson, George Westlick, B. W. Williams, W. M. Musgrove.
Jolın M. Compton, Esq., a resident citizen and practicing attorney of Coshocton, was a member of Company II of the Ninety-seventh Ohio, and was chosen color bearer of the brigade to which the Ninety-seventh belonged for the last eighteen months of the war. Mr. Compton gives a very interesting sketch of the incidents more directly affecting the Coshocton companies as follows :
There was in the Ninety-seventh from Coshoc- ton county besides Companies II and I a large part of Company F.
The companies suffered from sickness, super- induced by the march of the regiment after Bragg's retreating army in 1862. There being a drouth in Kentucky that year, and no water on the line of march but the poorest kind, Coshocton's two companies though full when mustered in at Zanesville, Ohio, when they arrived in Nash- ville with Buell's army were reduced about one- third. Clinton Gardner, of Company I, was one of the first ten men who crossed the Tennessee river at Chattanooga on an old scow under com- mand of the now Secretary of State of Ohio, Col- onel Milton Barnes, then lieutenant-colonel of the Ninety-seventh. The Companies H and I had been engaged in a skirmish for some hours before the ten men crossed on the scow. At Mission Ridge Companies H and I were in the hottest of the fight, losing six killed and a large number wounded. In East Tennessee, these companies lived for some time on foraged cornbread and hog meat captured in expeditions made by them to the mountains of East Tennessee. June 22, 1861, Companies H and I were with the regiment in the charge on Kenesaw Mountain; they charged almost up to the works of the enemy, but were compelled to lie down, the fire from the rebel works being very heavy; while thus prostrate, a great number were killed or wounded by the rebel sharpshooters; of one hundred and fifty three men who went out on this charge, one hundred and twelve were either killed or wounded.
Instances of personal bravery in these two con- panies are numerous. Nate Price, of Company H, was severely stunned by a spent cannon ball, which struck the breeching of the gun and de- moralized it. On recovering from the shock Price picked up a dead man's musket, went up to the top of the Ridge and fought it out. This inci- dent occurred at Mission Ridge. In the same battle Daniel Fortune, of Company I, was severely stunned by a solid shot passing close to his head. After recovering he followed the example of Nate Price, of Company H. Kit Hall, also of Com- pany II, succeeded in bringing down the rebel color bearer, who was on the top of the Ridge and seemed to defy the Union marksmen.
The Ninety-seventh was recruited in the coun- ties of Muskingum, Morgan, Guernsey and Co- shoton, during the months of July and August, 1862. It was mustered into the service at Camp Zanesville on the 1st and 2d of September; moved from Zanesville by cars on the 7th for Covington Heights, opposite Cincinnati ; and on the morning of the 8th, took position near Fort
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Mitchel, three miles from the Ohio river, during the Kirby Smith raid.
September 20, the regiment embarked on the steamer Emma Duncan, arrived at Louisville on the evening of the 22d, and was immediately brigaded with General Buell's army, then in pur- suit of Bragg's rebel forces. It moved out of Louisville on the Bardstown road, with Buell's army, on the 2d of October. On the 4th the rear- guard of the enemy was met at Bardstown, and a brisk skirmish ensued, in which the enemy was driven in the direction of Perryville, Ken- tucky. On the morning of the Sth, the day on which the battle of Perryville was fought, the Ninety-seventh was with the main part of Buell's army, within ten miles of that place. At the commencement of the battle, the regiment; with its brigade and division, was ordered up to the battle field, where it held in check and drove back the rebel forces in an attempt to turn our right. On the 9th, the rebels having evacuated Perryville, the regiment joined in the pursuit, and continued it up to Wild Cat, Kentucky. On the 22d, the pursuit was abandoned, and the national army commenced its movement toward Nashville, arriving on the 21st of November, and going into eamp three miles from the city, on the Murfreesboro railroad.
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