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American Civil War
SIXTEENTH REGIMENT INFANTRY
there were no Union soldiers on either of the Round Tops, only a group of signal-men and General Warren, the Chief Engineer, on the Smaller Knob. The rebel column looked up amazed. No troops peered over to oppose them. Lonely and frightened, the little bunch of signal men flung their mysterious messages through the blue air. But the natural grimness of the gnarled mountain seemed of itself to intimidate the arrested Texans. Like a fortress dismantled it rose, piled high with natural masonries, and on its granite ramparts oaks of a hundred years waved darkly.
Michigan in the Civil War
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