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THIRTEENTH REGIMENT INFANTRY
The other regiments of the brigade having been driven back by a largely superior force, left the 13th Michigan alone with the battery to contend against two brigades which had just defeated four of the other regiments, any one of which outnumbered the 13th. Colonel Harker, commanding the bri gade, had fallen back with the retreating regiments, leaving Colonel Shoemaker in sole command. The confederates advanced on a run, cheering and. firing, the battery throwing case and canister into their ranks with telling effect, but was unable to check the advance,
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