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Michigan's
Second Regiment Infantry
Headquarters 4th Brigade,
August 11th, 1861.
Captain: —Permit me to correct an unintentional error that has crept into Brigadier General McDowell's official report of the engagement of July 21st:
By command of Brigadier General McDowell, given me in presence of Colonel Jackson, 18th New York Volunteers, and of Captain Whipple of the Engineer corps, to conduct the retreat, and to cover the retreat with my brigade, I did so cover the retreat from Centreville. I brought up the rear with my brigade in the following order: 12th New York lead, ing, followed by 1st Massachusetts; the 3d Michigan taking up position, kept in rear, and followed by the 2d Michigan. About one mile this side of Centreville we were obliged to halt on account of other regiments, and the 2d Michigan then took the position of the 3d Michigan, and thus marching in good order we reached Arlington about 4 o'clock P. M.
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