Battery D, 1st Michigan Light Artillery, a Civil War-era living-history group, fire their cannon during a reenactment weekend.

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Soldiers of Battery D, 1st Michigan Light Artillery, a Civil War-era living-history group, fire old cannon at an American civil war renactment at Fort Wilkins on the Northern Keweenaw Peninsula near Copper Harbor, Michigan, USA. The original Battery D served in the western theater of the Civil War - Kentucky, Tennessee and northern Georgia - where, despite losing five of its six artillery pieces in the 1863 Battle of Chickamauga, it helped Union General George H. Thomas earn the nickname "the Rock of Chickamauga" for his stiff defense against Confederate forces in the ensuing Union defeat.

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