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Michigan Regiments
Twenty-Sixth Regiment Infantry
"In the Richmond Examiner's account of the battle of Spottsylvania occurs the following:
"'A Tree Hewn Down by Bullets. —Most people have doubted the literal accuracy of the dispatch concerning the battle of Spottsylvania, which alleged that trees were cut down under the concentrated fire of minie balls. We doubted the literal fact ourselves and would doubt it still but for the indisputable testimony of Dr. Charles McGill, an eye-witness of the battle.
American Civil War
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