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American Civil War
SIXTEENTH REGIMENT INFANTRY
The order being given to charge, the skirmish battle lines soon advanced across the open ground. The charging column pressed steadily, earnestly, persistently forward. Rebel shell and bullets had no dismaying effect.
" A commission to him who first mounts the parapet of that redoubt, ' shouted Colonel Welch, of the 16th Michigan, to his men. Follow me!' He led his regiment. He was the first to mount the parapet, when he waved his sword. In an instant a rebel bullet penetrated his brain, and he lay dead.
Michigan in the Civil War
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