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First Infantry Civil War
First Michigan Infantry
The regiment deployed column and with cheers advanced towards the enemy, our right resting near the railroad embankment, the center and left near a stone wall and railroad cut, in each of which places was posted a rebel battery. Va our right and front was a force of the enemy's infantry, and as we advanced the regiment was subjected to a murderous fire from infantry and a cross-fire from five rebel batteries. The regiment suffered severely in crossing the open space. Colonel Roberts fell at an early moment after it
deployed out of the woods. Four captains and three lieutenants— Captains Charles E. Wendell Russell H. Alcott, Eben T. Whittlesey, Edward Pomeroy, and Lieutenants H. Clay Arnold, J. L. Garrison, and W. Bloodgood—met their death, and more than fifty per cent of the regiment were either killed or wounded.
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