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Michigan Civil War
TWELFTH REGIMENT INFANTRY
The officer asked, ' Who is in command?' I answered, ' I am; whereupon he surveyed me from head to foot (I had been playing ball that morning, pants in boots, having on a jacket without straps), with a disdainful air and said: ' General Van Dorn demands a surrender of you and the whole damned thing immediately; we don't want to bother with you. ' It was my intention to have asked if he had artillery, but his important demeanor did not set very well as may be imagined, and I upon the spur of the moment replied, ' Give my compliments to the General and say to him I have no doubt he can whip us, but while he, is getting a meal we will try and get a mouthful.
Civil War
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