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Civil War
EIGHTEENTH REGIMENT INFANTRY
Then sound the march! we pledge devotion In our blood on land and ocean. "
The reverses of McClellan on the Peninsula, causing a general alarm for the cause of the Union, induced the governors of the loyal States to memorialize President Lincoln regarding the emergency, as indicated in the following telegram:
By Telegraph from New York, June 30th, 1862. To the Governor of Michigan:
" Private and Confidential. —In view of the present state of military movements, and the depleted condition of our efficient forces in the field,
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