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Michigan Civil War
Eighth Regiment Infantry
And this promise he fulfilled to the letter. His captain guarded him like a father. At the terrible battle of James Island the Captain, while on the parapet of the rebel works, was struck by a shot and fell over the wall into the rebel hands, and was seen no more. Charley so bereaved, his captain and dear friend gone, in his agony of soul murmurs, " Oh, how I pity his poor mother!" Charley passed through many severe engagements, often escaping death as it were by a miracle. Still he kept with the regiment; was at Vicksburg, and with Burnside in the East Tennessee campaign, in the mountains, and at Knoxville. But during the siege of that place, a chance shot struck him on the shoulder and entered the lung.
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