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Civil War
Third Regiment Infantry
and my veneration of the fighting done by the warriors of Berry's brigade, and by the men whom Kearny led up, and by all the others who stood by Peck, and Couch, and Keyes, and who rallied under the fluttering cloak of the fiery Heintzelman, is glowing. Companionship in arms with such men would to me be the most satisfactory distinction. I would covet the honor, if usage could confer it, of adoption into either of the Michigan regiments whom I saw on the leap through the shot and shell infested wood—on the leap to the ruin advancing upon us from the front to take it in flank and stay it—an adoption with a visible sign, so that when asked, 'To what service do you belong?' I could proudly reply, 'I belong to. Berry s Brigade. '
American Civil War
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