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ler and Informed him of toe change. I have not been able to find out who m ade the change or why it was done. My old regiment, the 8th Virginia, was very small now. It went In the charge on the 3rd of July with one hundred twenty-five muskets and twenty-five officers. Eleven privates and two officers came out not wounded. Col. Hunton was made a Brigadier General after this battle; Norbourn Berkeley was made Col. of the 8th Virginia; Edmond Berkeley, Lt. Col.; William Berkeley,.Major; and Charley Berkeley, Captain in his brother William's place; so the 8th was known as the Berkeley Regiment.

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