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American Civil War
SIXTEENTH REGIMENT INFANTRY
His battery would not budge on the rook-strewn right. The horses could not keep their balance up the almost vertical places, with the dead weight of 30-pounders below them. Pioneers with frenzied blows leveled the oak trees; they charged the bowlders and blew them to pieces; they made a roadway as speedily as a housewife sweeps a stair. Then to every gun lines of men put their sinews and shoulders. Lever and shovel cleared the path.
Michigan in the Civil War
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