Our battery was engaged in the afternoon, but received no injuries. During the night of the 14th the 23d corps was relieved by the 14th, and on the 15th we marched around to the extreme left to assist the 20th corps, but arrived too late to participate in the engagement of that day. The enemy [...]
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At that time the line swung around, and we again formed the right wing. There we remained two days, during which time the rebels fell back, and on the 9th a reconnaissance in force was made by the 2d division and our battery. After advancing some five miles the enemy’s line was developed, extending from [...]
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of the rebel works, and threw up works to protect it. On the 26th moved one section to the right, and shelled the rebs, to cover a forward movement of the 3d division. On the 27th our forces brought on a general engagement, and we shelled their line all day long. Then we had Private [...]
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We soon got our pieces in battery, and the old 6th Michigan had fired but a few rounds when it got too hot for them and they retreated, leaving one gun in our possession. The army had nearly all crossed the river by the 12th, and we marched about three miles and again threw up [...]
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We threw up a temporary work and got our guns into position at 3 o’clock A. M. of the 21st within 560 yards of the enemy’s lines, and two and a half miles from the city. Soon after we opened a heavy fire, to which they vigorously replied. Early in the day we had the [...]
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About this time the enemy, having massed their troops on our left, charged the works of the 17th corps, occupying the extreme left, and succeeded in driving it back across the railroad, and again Decatur was in possession of the Johnnies. But the 15th and 16th corps, together with the 3d division of the 23d, [...]
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the brigade taking with it two of the enemy’s cavalry pickets. The inarch was continued in good order during the whole of the night, without halting, and after resting for an hour on the morning of the 3d the march was resumed and continued until night, when, reaching Charlotte, it encamped, having marched a distance [...]
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on the 10th with a loss of one killed and two wounded, and reached Kingston on the 15th, and on the 21st arrived at Goldsboro, where it remained until the 8th of April, when, in consequence of its becoming short of men, it was ordered to Newbern to refit for field service. From that date [...]
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Battery G (Lanphere’s) was recruited in Branch county with rendezvous at Coldwater, and mustered into the service of the United States at Kalamazoo, January 17th, 1862, with officers as follows: Captain, Chas. H. Lanphere, Coldwater; First Lieutenant, Edwin O. Lanphere, Coldwater; First Lieutenant, Alvin T. Lanphere, Coldwater; Second Lieutenant, James H. Burdick, Coldwater; Second Lieutenant, [...]
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In November it proceeded to Gauly Bridge, W. Va., and then returned to Point Pleasant and there embarked on transports for Cincinnati, reaching there November 21st, and on the 27th re-embarked for Memphis, and from thence to the Yazoo river, Miss. It took part in the battle of Chickasaw Bayou, December 28 and 29, losing [...]
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