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Michigan Civil War
Eighth Regiment Infantry
This rendered the reconnoissance of Oatland creek, with boats, useless, and I ordered the companies all in; and stationing the remaining companies to guard against an attack at our landing, sent out strong pickets on both roads.
I believe the advance of the company to the right instead of along Turner's creek saved my command, as it sooner enabled me to post the men to advantage and take a position from which the enemy's approach could be observed. The enemy proved to be the Georgia 13th, about 800 strong, armed with Enfield rifles. As they approached, about 4 o'clock P. M., with a strong body of skirmishers in the skirting of woods below the road, the companies I had stationed to the right and left of the road, in accordance with my instructions, opened fire.
Civil War
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