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Civil War-U.S.
Twenty-First Regiment Infantry
The reports of the regiment show a membership of 1, 477 officers and men, while its losses were 1 officer and 40 men killed in action, 2 officers and 31 men died of wounds, 3 officers and 291 men of disease, being 368 of a total.
" Do you know that signs of your deaths
Across our heart-springs play, E'm from the last sweet breaths That come from the month of May?"
Note. —Colonel McCreery was severely wounded and taken prisoner at Chickamauga, September 20th, 1863. He was taken to Richmond and confined in Libby Prison, where, with others, he engaged in digging the celebrated tunnel through which he made his escape on February 9th following. On reaching the union lines he telegraphed his father as follows:
To Ruben McCreery, Flint,
I have made escape from "Hell"
(Libby Prison), and am again in God's country, will be home soon.
Wm. B. McCREERY, Colonel 21st Michigan Infantry.
Civil War
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