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First Infantry Civil War
First Michigan Infantry
This regiment had carried on its rolls in all 1, 346 officers and men, and had lost 12 officers and 103 men killed in action, 3 officers and 32 men died from wounds, while 1 officer and 92 men had died of disease, being 243 of a total.
"What hallows ground where heroes sleep? 'Tis not the sculptured piles you heap! In dews that heavens far distant weep
Their turf may bloom; Or genii twine beneath the deep
Their coral tomb. "
Note. —It was at the second battle of Bull Run that a cannon ball carried off a poor soldier's leg.
" Carry me to the rear!" he cried, to a tall Irish companion, who had been fighting by his side—" My leg's shot off. "
Civil War
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