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Civil War Infantry
Twenty Second Regiment Infantry
" And when, in mightier force,
they came
With serried ranks and sheets of flame,
Sweeping apart our shattered bands,
Who snatched the palm from rebel hands?
The 'Rock of Chickamauga. '
" All day they surged and stormed in vain,
Lost Chattanooga to regain,
In vain each furious battle shock;
They were but waves,
and he the rock,
The 'Rock of Chickamauga.
" His clarion voice with cheering word,
Above the din of battle heard,
His bearing firm,
his kindling eye Fired every breast with ardor high,
The 'Rock of Chickamauga.
" A new Thermopylae we found On Chickamauga's bloody ground;
And in that rugged mountain pass He stood our true Leonidas,
Michiagn
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