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American Civil War
Twenty-Fifth Regiment Infantry
Lieutenant and Adjutant.
Headquarters 23d Army Corps, Lexington, July 17, 1863.
General Orders
No. 12.
The General commanding the corps hereby extends his thanks to the two hundred officers and soldiers of the 25th Michigan Regiment, under Colonel O. H. Moore, who so succeessfuily resisted, by their gallant and heroic bravery, the attack of a vastly superior force of the enemy, under the rebel General, John Morgan, at Tebb's Bend, on Green river, on the Fourth of July, 1863, in which they killed one-fourth as many of the enemy as their own little band amounted to, and wounded a number equal to their own.
By command of
George B. Drake,
Michigan
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