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Civil War
FOURTH REGIMENT INFANTRY
"I might have shot you half a dozen times, " said a prisoner, after the fight, to Colonel Woodbury. "Why didn't you?" asked the Colonel, coolly. "I took you for some d—d common orderly " was the reply.
The affair at Newbridge was so brave and dashing as to be noticed in a dispatch from General McClellan to the War Department, as follows:
Three skirmishes to-day. We drove the rebels from Mechanicsville seven miles from New Bridge. The 4th Michigan about used up the 'Louisiana Tigers. ' Fifty prisoners and fifty killed and wounded. "
Michigan in the Civil War
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