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Michigan Civil War
TWELFTH REGIMENT INFANTRY
General Prentiss was so loth to believe that the enemy was in force that our division was not organized for defense, not even brigades, but each regiment acted upon its own hook, so far as I was able to observe.
" The point I wish to make is this: That had it not been for these four companies which were sent out by Colonel Peabody, our whole division would have been taken in their tents, and the day would have been lost without doubt, in my own mind. I shall always think that Colonel Peabody saved the battle of Shiloh, and that the two companies of the 12th Michigan and the two companies of the 25th Missouri were the instruments in his hands.
Civil War
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