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First Infantry Civil War
First Michigan Infantry
We left Hanover on the evening of the 1st, with the brigade marching to a place near the battlefield of the 2d during the night. On the morning of the 2d we were formed in line of battle, in reserve, where we remained until about 4 o'clock P. M., when we (with the brigade) were ordered to the front. We got into position in line about 4. 30 P. M., with the 22d Massachusetts on our left and the 118th Pennsylvania on our right. We* had no sooner got our line fully established than the enemy drove in our skirmishers and appeared in force in the edge of a wood on our front, within two hundred yards of our line. We ordered our men to fix bayonets, and commenced firing on the enemy with a deadly effect, driving him back after a severe fire of half an hour. He, however, soon returned, and was a second time driven back with great loss.
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