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Battery D
no commander
could have fought longer under like circumstances, nor retreated from the field with
more honor. He maintained his position until the last and made terrible havoc among
the rebel masses. At every discharge of his peices and the messengers followed each
other in quick succession-wide gaps were opened in the ranks of the maddened foe; and, strange to say, they as often closed such gaps as regularly as on dress parade.
"When the rebel General Preston, who led the charge, got possession of the guns, he looked around and inquired of a wounded soldier lying on the ground, whose battery it war 'Captain Church's Michigan Battery.
Michigan Civil War Battery
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