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American Civil War
SIXTEENTH REGIMENT INFANTRY
Side swords were crossed. Heads opened to scabbard cuts. The devilish things that were done half way to heaven on that scarred knob will haunt it a thousand years. The hot battery quaked over all through its natural granite embrasures Line after line driven back, new columns of yelling savages leaped upward.
Men of Maine, Michiganders, New Yorkers, Pennsylvania hurled them back. From a series of charges the enemy's attack resolved into a volleying rest, lying upon their faces.
Michigan in the Civil War
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