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Michigan Civil War
Eighth Regiment Infantry
Forward the force vigorously pressed, surprising and capturing the enemy's pickets; advancing promptly and firmly in line of battle without firing a gun, and when within one hundred yards of the enemy's works it received his fire of grape and canister in advancing over a narrow strip of dry land, not over two hundred yards wide, between the marshes, the only route by which the works could be reached and that was obstructed by an abatis almost insuperable, while a ditch seven feet high protected their works, which had a parapet nine feet high.
Civil War
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