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Michigan's
Second Regiment Infantry
The battle on the left of the line was a series of assaults by the enemy, and repulses and onsets by ourselves, the fresh reinforcements of the enemy continually tending to outflank us General Berry was ever on the alert, and by good arrangements and personal exam-Die influenced the ardor of all around him. His regiments fought most desperately. It was one of them, Colonel Poe's 2d Michigan,. more directly under my control, which mam-tained the key point of our position. Two of its companies led off with the first success of the day, while covering the artillery.
Colonel Poe had already won a reputation in Western Virginia. He was a distinguished officer of the U. S. Army before taking command of this regiment. I especially notice him for advancement. His loss in killed, wounded, and missing is sixty.
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