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Yankee
Twenth-ninth Regiment Infantry
"When the rebel General Hood was on his northern campaign in 1864, for the purpose of overrunning Tennessee, getting possession of Nashville and Louisville, and threatening the cities on the Ohio river, the 29th Michigan (recruited and rendezvoused under the supervision of Hon. John F. Driggs, M. C. ) under command of Colonel Thomas M. Saylor, was stationed at Nashville; and on the advance of Hood upon Decatur, Ala., it was sent forward to that point, arriving there on the 26th, just in time to march from the cars to its position in line to meet the advance of Hood's forces then attacking that place
Michigan in the Civil War
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