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Yankee
Twenth-ninth Regiment Infantry
the rebels being unable to gain any advance, notwithstanding he made several attempts to charge the line. Colonel Doolittle then withdrew the advance force inside the main works, leaving one hundred men of the 29th Michigan to strengthen the picket line and hold the line of the rifle-pits. In the engagement of this day the pickets on the Union line, from the redoubt to the river on the right, remained in their position, and when night came, the picket line was intact.
Michigan in the Civil War
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