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Field Manuals during the Civil War noted that Sergeants were tasked with gunning down soldiers who fled the battle line or with forcing men to fight at gunpoint. Was such action ever taken by Sergeants in battle?

by /u/mrpeabodyscoaltrain in /r/AskHistorians

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