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With the flag came the following note from General Price: ' Colonel, what has caused the cessation of fight?' Mulligan returned it with the following reply: 'General, I hardly know, unless you have surrendered.' "
" The fight had ceased! The cannon's roar Was silent on Missouri's shore; The leader and his band so brave Had turned from walla they could not save.
In December following the regiment was reorganized, the Michigan company rein listed- and filling up with recruits from this State, and under Colonel Mulligan proceeded to Western Virginia in June, 1862, and remained in service until the close of the war, when it was mustered out at Richmond, Va on the 25th of July, 1865.
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