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U. S. Civil War
NINTH REGIMENT INFANTRY
But on the morrow the blow fell and the danger we anticipated became a reality. General Crittenden made his headquarters in town, while I preferred camping with my own men, and therefore pitched my tent with the five companies of the 9th Michigan Volunteers.
The force then at Murfreesboro was as follows: Five companies, A, C, G, H, and K, 9th Michigan Volunteers, Lieutenant Colonel Parkhurst commanding, two hundred strong, together with the 1st squadron, 4th Kentucky Cavalry, Captain Chilson, eighty-one strong, were camped three-fourths of a mile east of the town, upon the Liberty turnpike. One company, B, 9th Michigan Volunteers, Captain Bounds, forty-two strong, occupied the court-house, t
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