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TIL in the US Civil War, US forces under inept General Ben Butler were repulsed in the first attempt at taking Petersburg in part by a scratch force of old men, young boys and jail inmates and is referred to as "The Battle of The Patients and Penitents" and "The battle of Old Men and Young Boys"

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