SEVENTEENTH REGIMENT INFANTRY ” Then up with the banner, let Southern breezes fan her, It shall float o’er Columbia for ever more, In glory we’ll sustain her, in battle defend her, With heart and with hand like our fathers before. ” The 17th Infantry, the celebrated “Stonewall regiment, ” was rendezvoused at Detroit under orders [...]
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FIELD AND STAFF. Colonel, Wm. H. Withington, Jackson. Lieutenant Colonel, Constant Luce, Monroe. Major, George Collins Lyons, Jackson. Surgeon, Abram E. Calkins, Allegan. Assistant Surgeon, Jonathan Beviere, Grand Rapids. 2d Assistant Surgeon, Albert Daniels, Rich-land. Adjutant, Wm. V. Richards, Ann Arbor. Quartermaster, Charles Ford, Jackson. The companies mustered in and making up the regiment, were: [...]
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I. Captain, Alfred Brooks, Kalamazoo. First Lieutenant, Nelson D. Curtiss, Kalamazoo. Second Lieutenant, George Galligan, Kalamazoo. K. Captain, Wm. W. Thayer, Battle Creek. First Lieutenant, James E. Thomas, Grass Lake. Second Lieutenant, Benjamin B. Baker, Jackson. The 17th, on its arrival at Washington, was attached to the 1st brigade, 1st division, 9th corps, sent immediately [...]
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Here are two country roads, one to the right of the turnpike and the other to the left, which give access to the crests overlooking the main road or turnpike. The one on the left is the ‘ old Sharpsburg road, ‘ and is nearly parallel to and about half a mile distant from the [...]
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The cannoneers with their horses and limbers came rush-ing down the road through our dense ranks, causing a temporary panic among some of the troops that might have resulted in the loss of the guns had the enemy taken the advantage of it. We promptly changed front here under a heavy fire of shot and [...]
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exposed to a storm of lead from the stone fence in front and from the enemy’s batteries on the right of the gap. Our regiment was the extreme light of Willcox’s division, which was composed mainly of old troops, and our men moved upon the enemy as if jealous of the laurels their veteran coadjutors [...]
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The following poem was delivered on ‘ Class Day’ before the class of 1865, in the Department of Science, Literature, and the Arts, of the University of Michigan, and its publication was desired not only by the class, but by the faculty and the large audience who had the pleasure of listening to it. Its [...]
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‘Tis given. As quick as the word they face And advance by the flank every man in his place. The old starry flag waves proudly and high, So fondly caressed by the soft autumn sky; While the Eagle, extending his wings on the air, Seemed to whisper of Victory hovering there. The low, rumbling sounds [...]
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Back o’er the heaps of mangled men, We move as shuts the day, And there recline upon our arms, To watch the night away; And as to heaven’s calm, peaceful vault, We turn the weary eye, We feel that we have struck one blow For God and Liberty. General Willcox, in his report of the [...]
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when the enemy charged out of the woods on their side, directly upon our front, In a long heavy line, extending beyond our left to Cox’s right. I instantly gave the command, ‘Forward!’ and we met them near the foot of the hill, the 45th Pennsylvania in front. The 17th Michigan rushed down into the [...]
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