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American Civil War
SIXTEENTH REGIMENT INFANTRY
Finding their position turned, the enemy fled in confusion, and the 18th Michigan, under the lead of Lieutenant Colonel Welch, advanced at the double quick on the right, and gallantly compelled them to abandon one piece of their battery—a fine Blakely gun.
" Moving in con junction with the cavalry, we drove them from this position to other stone walls immediately in rear, dislodging them at each attack, until we pushed them across Crummel's Bun. Here they made a sharp resistance, and opened an artillery fire, from which we suffered.
Michigan in the Civil War
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