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First Infantry Civil War
First Michigan Infantry
The enemy were also making for the logs, but we reached them first, and opened such a murderous fire that the line of butternuts flew like chaff. They had reached to within ten rods of the works. Falling back into the edge of the woods, they kept up a rapid and galling fire on our position. Here Sergeant Geo. Tillotson, Co. B, Corporal Oscar Nash, Co. A, and acting Corporal Charles Wonderlick, Co. G, (color guard) were instantly killed. Soon bullets began to come into us both right and left, admonishing us that the enemy had come one of his Inevitable flank movements, and that those who did not want to go further south had better -about face, and we 'abouted, ' falling back one hundred rods, forming a new line and checking the advance of the enemy. Darkness put a stop to further fighting that day. During the night a severe storm of hail and sleet set in, turning to rain, which poured all next day, freezing as it fell, and we without tents. But time and space prevents further writing now.
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