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Civil War Infantry
Twenty Second Regiment Infantry
This flag was defended at Chickamauga in the heroic charge of the regiment, nobly, where three color bearers were killed and several wounded, with nearly the entire regiment killed, wounded or prisoners.
Colonel Wisner served faithfully and with much distinction until attacked with typhoid fever, of which he died at Lexington, Ky., on the 4th of January, 1863.
Governor Blair, in his message delivered to the Legislature in January of that year, makes the following allusion to the death of Colonel Wisner, which is worthy of a place in the history of Michigan troops, especially of this regiment:
" Intelligence has been received of another of the great sacrifices we make to save our country.
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