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Michigan in the Civil War
SEVENTEENTH REGIMENT INFANTRY
Back o'er the heaps of mangled men,
We move as shuts the day, And there recline upon our arms,
To watch the night away; And as to heaven's calm, peaceful vault,
We turn the weary eye, We feel that we have struck one blow
For God and Liberty.
General Willcox, in his report of the part taken by the 1st division, 9th corps, at South Mountain, says of the 17th Michigan in that engagement:
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