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Civil War
Third Regiment Infantry
Ransack the annals of that campaign, aye, even of the entire war, and such another compliment cannot be found as that by Prince de Joinville to Berry's brigade of Kearny's division at Fair Oaks, made up of the 2d, 3d, and 5th Michigan, and 37th New York. The Prince says:
Meanwhile Heintzelman rushes to the rescue. As at Williamsburg, Kearny arrives in good time to re-establish the fight. Berry's brigade of this division, composed of Michigan regiments and an Irish battalion (37th N. Y. ), advanced firm as a wall into the midst of the disordered mass, which wanders over the battlefield, and does more by its example than the most powerful reinforcements;
American Civil War
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