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Michigan Civil War
Eleventh Regiment Infantry
and judging that Hooker must by this time be at or near Rossville, he gave Thomas, at 2 P. M., the order to advance and attack. At once Baird s, Woods, Sheridan s, and Johnson's divisions went forward, with double lines of skirmishers in front, followed, at easy supporting distance, by the entire force, right into the enemy s rifle-pits at the base of the ridge, driving out the occupants, and hardly stopping to reform their lines before they charged right up the steep and difficult ascent, slowly, of course, but steadily, and in order, following so close to the retreating foe as to embarrass, doubtless, his gunners firing from the crest of the ridge. "
Civil War
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