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Troops for The Civil War
Raising the Troops
but they have been found manfully lighting in the front rank on every field, and have been trusted and
relied upon for efficiency in cases of emergency and great danger, and have been specially distinguished as possessing, in the highest degree, that characteristic so essential to success in war—true courage. "
From the Red Book of Michigan:
The prominent feature in the war operations of 1863 was the important battle of Gettysburg. That battle, which in effect proclaimed with most terrible force to the monster rebellion: 'Thus far hast thou dared to come, but must advance no further at thy peril; back to thy rebel den;
American Civil War
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