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United States Civil War
FIFTH REGIMENT INFANTRY
"In the rifle-pits in front of the 5th Michigan, sixty-three dead rebels were found, every one of them killed by the bayonet. "
The following letter of General Berry, on Michigan troops and Michigan, was written following Williamsburg to a friend in Washington:
To all my sick and wounded in hospital you chance to visit give my warmest regards for their welfare. May they speedily recover. So gallant a set of men should not suffer for want of anything. I trust they will be amply provided for, as you intimate they are. A nobler set of men never lived. Any man can win fights with such material. I have received ten times more credit than I am entitled to for the part performed by my poor self in the late bloody battle.
Civil War
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