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Michigan Civil War
TWELFTH REGIMENT INFANTRY
Through the night the shells from the gunboats crashed along the rebel lines. So destructive was the fire that Beauregard was obliged to fall back from the position he had won by such sacrifice of human life. There was activity at the landing. The steamers went to Savannah, took on board McCook's and Crittenden's divisions of Buell's army and transported them to Pittsburg. Few words were spoken as they marched up the hill in the darkness, with the thousands of wounded on either hand, but there were many silent thanksgivings that they had come. The wearied soldiers lay down in battle line to broken sleep, with their loaded guns beside them. The sentinels stood like statues of death, watching and waiting for the morning.
Civil War
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