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Michigan Civil War
Eighth Regiment Infantry
The truce agreed upon by Burnside to allow the Confederates an opportunity to bury their dead, brought on to the field the ambulance train of Longstreet, which became a source of much amusement as well as a subject for much criticism to the Union soldier, appearing as it did made up of all sorts of vehicles, from a Richmond milk wagon with the sign still remaining on it, to the primitive and peculiar cart of the Virginia chivalry, with the inevitable mule and butternut-clad driver, proud of his turnout as the gayest cockney with his four-in-hand of the finest specimen of the English coach "horse, dashing forward with latest pattern of the stylish family coach.
Civil War
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