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Michigan Civil War
TWELFTH REGIMENT INFANTRY
From a correspondent at the time:
" On the morning of December 24th, 1862, Lieutenant Colonel Dwight May, of the 12th Michigan Infantry, left Middleburg, for Bolivar, Tenn., some seven miles distant, to attend a military commission convened by order of General Grant. When about two miles from Middteburg he saw horsemen approaching; as they neared he saw that they had on the blue overcoat of our army, and from the peculiar gait of their horses, and the frequent backward movement of the legs of their riders, and their numbers, he halted, took out his field glass, and was about adjusting it when the advance guard fired at him and put their horses to their utmost speed.
Civil War
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