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Michigan in the Civil War
SEVENTEENTH REGIMENT INFANTRY
the enemy, as usual, sought every advantage, particularly that of
numerous stone fences, behind which they assailed our men fiercely. But 'the impetuous charges of some of our regiments, particularly that of the 17th Michigan, but two weeks from home, carried everything before it, and the dead bodies of the enemy on that mountain crest lay thick enough for stepping stones. The greatest slaughter at this point was among General Drayton's brigade, composed mainly of South Carolinians and some Georgians. Nearly the whole of this brigade was either killed, wounded or captured.
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