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Yankee
Twenth-ninth Regiment Infantry
and early on the morning of the 29th it was ascertained that the enemy's forces had all been withdrawn except a strong rear guard, and at about 4 P. M. he was driven out of his last line of rifle-pits.
"The noble and successful defense of Decatur by Colonel Doolittle, against such enormous odds was one of the most gallant and remarkable of the war, and its importance, in view of its effect upon the great battle of Nashville, which soon followed, was second to
Michigan in the Civil War
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