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Civil War American
THIRTEENTH REGIMENT INFANTRY
The 13th Michigan, left alone, had nobly maintained their position until they had lost over one-third of their number and were about being surrounded. Colonel Shoemaker then ordered them to retire, but after moving them a few rods through quite a dense undergrowth, he re-formed them and ordered them to charge the advancing enemy, which they did, every man shouting and yelling like so many born devils. The rebels, ten times their number, not being able to see their strength for the intervening thicket, and supposing they had fallen into an ambuscade, broke and fled.
U. S. Civil War
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