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American Civil War
SIXTEENTH REGIMENT INFANTRY
The fighting at this point was of a most terrific and bloody character, in which the 16th had a full share.
A special correspondent of the New York Tribune mentions the brigade as follows:
"While this main battle, involving two-thirds of both armies, had for its object the possession of Sickles's false line, an episodical combat had taken place upon the scythe-handle itself, more limited but more furious. When, at the beginning of the fight, the Texan line overlapped the left of Sickles's, and burst across the Devil's Den,
Michigan in the Civil War
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