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Michigan in the Civil War
SEVENTEENTH REGIMENT INFANTRY
Among the wounded at South Mountain was Lieutenant George Galligan, who died of his wounds at Middleton, Md., on the 24th of the same month, and Lieutenant W. E. Dufiield, wounded at Antietam on the 17th of September, died at Frederick City, Md., October 16th following, of his wounds.
Colonel F. W. Swift, in a report made since the war, of the part taken by the 17th at South Mountain, says:
"On the evening of the 13th of September, 1862, the 17th Michigan Infantry, then only two weeks from Michigan, marched from Frederick City, Md., where it had bivouacked the night before with the rest of the 9th army corps.
Civil War
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