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American Civil War
SIXTEENTH REGIMENT INFANTRY
" Can't do it, ' was the response he received.
" Then I'll take the bridge any way, ' he replied; and he did take it, killing three men and capturing nine prisoners. Lieutenant Colonel Welch was among the first to reach the enemy's battery, when his men seized the Blakely gun. He was recklessly brave throughout.
"When Colonel Vincent gave the order to charge on the battery it was not in precise military phrase, but' stop that damned battery howling, '—an order of such terse meaning and intelligibility as to be looked for from such a man. "
Michigan in the Civil War
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