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American Civil War
Fourteenth Regiment Infantry
This is the first time our lines were ever broken. The 14th Michigan broke our lines and were the first troops to enter our works. We did not know they were coming until they were right upon us, and when they entered there were no other troops within seventy. five to one hundred yards of our works. Our lines being broken and flanked, we surrendered. "
On November 1st, 1864, the 14th, in command of Lieutenat Colonel Grummond, and still in the 1st brigade, 2d division, 14th corps, broke camp at Rome, and commenced the grand march with Sherman to Savannah via Kingston, Atlanta, and thence through Milledgeville, destroying many miles of railroad;
Civil War Battle
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