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killing one hundred and twenty-five, taking fifteen hundred prisoners and three battle-flags. The rebel commander Pettigrew was mortally wounded, and Major Weber who led the 6th Michigan in the charge, was instantly killed. Thus Michigan troops were early in the great contest at Gettysburg, and were in the last charge which closed that bold and formidable invasion of northern soil.
A New York correspondent, noticing the engagement at Falling Waters, which immediately followed Gettysburg, says:
" Hearing that a force had marched toward Falling Waters, General Kilpatrick ordered on advance to that place. Through some mistake, only one brigade, that of General Custer, obeyed the order. When within less than a mile of Falling Waters four brigades were Sound in line of battle in a very strong position, and behind half a dozen eleventh.
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