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First Infantry Civil War
First Michigan Infantry
But strew his ashes to the wind Whose sword or voice has served mankind, — And is he dead, whose glorious mind
Lifts thine on high? To live in hearts we leave behind
Is not to die. "
General Pope, in his report, thus describes the conflict of the 30th:
" The- enemy's heavy reinforcements having reached him on Friday afternoon and night, he began to mass on his right for the purpose of crushing our left, and occupying the road to Centreville in our rear. His heaviest assault was made about five o'clock in the afternoon, when, after overwhelming Fitz John Porter and driving his forces back on the center and left, mass after mass of his forces were pushed against our left. "
In Mr. Greeley's "American Conflict" Porter's Corps, to which the 1st Infantry belonged, at the battle of "Gaines's Mills, " is noticed as follows:
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