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2nd Michigan Volunteer Infantry
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| Battle of Williamsburg |
| Battle of Fair Oaks |
Extracts from correspondence of the New York Tribune
" The regiment was in the hottest of the fight. By the confession of prisoners 800 of Berry’s men (mostly Michigan), drove back at the point of the bayonet 1,600 rebels. "" There were four companies of the Second Michigan heavily engaged at Williamsburg, two in command of Captain William Humphrey and two commanded by Captain W.J. Hardy. The other companies of the regiment were partially engaged. The regiment lost in the action seventeen killed, thirty-eight wounded, and four missing." |
| " Meantime Heintzelman sends forward Kearny to recover Cosey’s lost ground. A desperate fight is going on at the extreme left. The enemy is successfully held in front of Couch’s old entrenched camp until Kearny’s Division arrives, when he stays the torrent of battle. One after another his gallant regiments push forward, and press back the fiery rebels, with more daring than their own. The Fifty-fifth New York wins new laurels, and Poe’s Second Michigan is bathed in blood; 500 of them charge across the open field against ten times their number, stopping them in mid-career, losing seventeen brave fellows in that one desperate essay." |
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