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American Civil War
Sixth Regiment Infantry
On August 5th, while that place was being heavily attacked by the rebel forces under Breckenridge, the regiment then in command of Captain Charles E. Clark, the ranking officers being in arrest, received and repulsed with spirit the principal attack by the rebel troops in command of General Clark, of Mississippi, against the right wing of the Union forces, which, if it had succeeded would have given the enemy a commanding position and most likely would have led to the loss of a large portion of the artillery.
General Thomas Williams, U. S. Army, a native of Detroit, commanded the Union troops. They consisted of Nims's2d Massachusetts Battery,
Michigan Civil War
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