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Michigan Civil War
TWELFTH REGIMENT INFANTRY
The membership of the 12th was 2, 325, while its losses were 432, of which one officer, 23 men died of wounds, 28 men killed in action, three officers and 377 men died of disease.
"Men whose glossy hair
Grew gray on the edge of the grave, Who lie so humbly there, Because you were grand and brave. "
Note. —Corporal William H. Burgess, company F, 12th Michigan Infantry, while on an expedition up Cache Bayou, made a capital shot which ought to be placed on record.
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