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American Civil War
Sixth Regiment Infantry
Lieutenant Colonel Charles E. Clarke, m a report made since the war, says of his regiment on the 27th of May:
That part of the line in which the 6th was posted advanced to the attack over a plain some half mile in width, which afforded no shelter from the murderous fire of the artillery and musketry poured into our ranks from behind the impregnable earthworks. The attack, of course, was unsuccessful, but the gallantry with which our men marched against the furious storm of shot, and the number of those left dead on that fatal field proves of what stuff they were made, and that they did all that men could do. "
Michigan Civil War
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