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Civil War
FOURTH REGIMENT INFANTRY
A writer at the time says:
"What deeds of valor were performed! There were many heroes that day. A rebel officer seized the colors of the 4th Michigan. Colonel Jefferds seized his revolver, shot him, and regained the flag. A rebel soldier with a bayonet-thrust ran the Colonel through the body, inflicting a mortal wound; but as he fell he held the flag he loved so well with a firmer grasp, clasping it in his arms and pressing it to his heart. The rebel soldier, too, went down, his brain pierced by a bullet from Major Hall's (4th Michigan) revolver. "
Michigan in the Civil War
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