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First Infantry Civil War
First Michigan Infantry
From a correspondent:
On they moved, looking more as though on dress parade than in line of battle prepared for the fray, led by the gallant Colonel Throop. What cared they for the shot and shell as they fell thick and fast around them, sometimes throwing the sand in their faces as one burst in front, or plowed up the earth at their side. Yet onward the whole line moved, although the ranks of the 18th and 22d Massachusetts and the 118th Pennsylvania were thinned at almost every step by the terrible missiles of death. Their conduct seemed to say, 'We care for none of these things. ' One great absorbing idea seemed to pervade every mind, as through the rain of death, with stateliness that was truly sublime, they moved, and that was the capture of the foe in his stronghold.
Civil War
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