. History of the Twenty-fourth Michigan of the Iron brigade, known as the Detroit and Wayne county regiment .. . JOHN A. KELLOGG. (Brevet Brigadier-General.) RUFUS R. DAWES. (Colonel of Sixth Wisconsin.)(Brevet Brigadier-General, U. S. Vols.) THE IRON BRIGADE. 469 heard. I tell you, I wouldnt give for those little badges of the Iron Brigade anypossesion I have or could have outside of my wife and children. We are all loyallegioneers—that is, I am not; I was a private. There are so many officers now,though, that I enjoy the distinction of being the only surviving private of the war ! The nickna
. History of the Twenty-fourth Michigan of the Iron brigade, known as the Detroit and Wayne county regiment .. . JOHN A. KELLOGG. (Brevet Brigadier-General.) RUFUS R. DAWES. (Colonel of Sixth Wisconsin.)(Brevet Brigadier-General, U. S. Vols.) THE IRON BRIGADE. 469 heard. I tell you, I wouldnt give for those little badges of the Iron Brigade anypossesion I have or could have outside of my wife and children. We are all loyallegioneers—that is, I am not; I was a private. There are so many officers now,though, that I enjoy the distinction of being the only surviving private of the war ! The nicknames possess an humorous fact of history. The oneapplied to the Twenty-fourth Michigan was because they were thelast from home. The Ragged Second Wisconsin was the moreeuphonious name for that regiment. This arose from the fact thatthe government contractors seemed to have run short of good materialwhen they made the pantaloons for that regiment, allowing theirflags of truce always to be kept in their rear, and a half abandondelight all to appear in uniform, prevailed among them. Once on areview they were
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