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Michigan's
Second Regiment Infantry
So he fought on, maintaining his ground until between 4 and 5 o'clock, when the gallant and dashing Philip Kearny came up with his division, with orders from Heintzelman (who with his staff had arrived early in the afternoon) to relieve Hooker's worn and fearfully thinned regiments. Kearny pressed to the front and Hooker's troops withdrew from the fight and rested as a reserve.
"Kearny deployed Berry's brigade to the left of the Williamsburg road, and Birney's to the right, and at the same time two companies of Poe's 2d Michigan were pressed forward to cover the movement and drive back confederate skirmishers, who were almost silencing the National batteries.
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