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Michigan Civil War
TWELFTH REGIMENT INFANTRY
He then remarked, 'That is what you say, is it?' To which I made answer, ' That is what I say, is it, ' and he wheeled, put spurs to his horse, and I double-quicked to my command, which was located in depot platform with planks doubled and port-holes cut, and a block or rather log house having port-holes. The enemy advanced until I fired a musket (which was the signal when my men were to fire), when the enemy broke up in confusion and sought log buildings and ditches, where they fought us for two hours and twenty-five minutes, and finally left us mon-archs of all we surveyed' in one sense. .
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