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Civil War
FOURTH REGIMENT INFANTRY
With his back to the field and his feet to the foe! And leaving in battle no blot on his name, Looks proudly to Heaven from the death-bed of fame. "
A writer says:
" The 1st day of July, 1862, was a gloomy day for the Army of the Potomac. Shattered, hard pressed, suffering from the effects of heat, thirst, and want of food, fatigued and worn down with fighting by day and retreating by night harrassed but not conquered, the heroic men of that army still stoutly resisted the foe. Slowly, step by step, they had fallen back from the Chickahominy to the base of Malvern Hill. Thousands of loved comrades were missing; some were cut off and captured, to be consigned to the cruelties of Libby Prison.
Michigan in the Civil War
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