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The last run to the Dybbøl Redoubts

The painter, Simon Simonsen, who witnessed the soldiers' last visit to the redoubts on Sunday 17 April 1864 himself, later described the situation as follows: "By passing along the road from Sønderborg to Ulkebøl, the 22nd regiment was halted for a moment by a transport of wounded soldiers from the Kirstein's Mill field hospital. One member of the crew shared the contents of their field bottles with the wounded."...