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Yankee
Twenth-ninth Regiment Infantry
An attempt was made early in the morning to dislodge them and re-establish the line, but the enemy were too well protected to be moved. Some time afterwards they were surprised by Captain W. C. Moore, 18th Michigan, with about fifty men from that regiment and a few clerks and orderlies from district headquarters, who made a most daring and dashing attack on them, driving them from their holes like scared rats, and taking 115 prisoners. During the day the battle became general; the Union troops, having been reinforced and numbering about 5, 000, had made a , most determined defense,
Michigan in the Civil War
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