. History of the Twenty-fourth Michigan of the Iron brigade, known as the Detroit and Wayne county regiment .. . rolinabrigade on that Sunday morning. In that copse of wood at the footof the hill, the Seventeenth Michigan formed. It was in Michiganscarce two weeks before. Up, across the open field it charged, rightover that stonewall, with a loss of twenty-eight of its own in killed,while the dead bodies of 154 of the South Carolina brigade were leftin the lane. Of the latter, fifty-nine were burried in Wises well andthe balance in a trench in his garden. Here is where the SeventeenthMichigan
. History of the Twenty-fourth Michigan of the Iron brigade, known as the Detroit and Wayne county regiment .. . rolinabrigade on that Sunday morning. In that copse of wood at the footof the hill, the Seventeenth Michigan formed. It was in Michiganscarce two weeks before. Up, across the open field it charged, rightover that stonewall, with a loss of twenty-eight of its own in killed,while the dead bodies of 154 of the South Carolina brigade were leftin the lane. Of the latter, fifty-nine were burried in Wises well andthe balance in a trench in his garden. Here is where the SeventeenthMichigan won its title as the Stonewall Regiment, and rightly isit entitled to its fame. 64 HISTORY OF THE TWENTY-FOURTH MICHIGAN. By that chestnut tree in the adjoining field, General Reno fell, avictim to the enemys sharpshooters. Accoutrements, canteens andhats with the terrible bullet holes in front, were scattered was a pile of knapsacks marked 1st S. C. Their owners layin yonder garden. These scenes were food for serious long ere we, too, would be actors on the field of deadly combat. and fill soldiers graves? At 5 oclock the Regiment marchedon to Boonsborough; thence three miles south on the Keedysvilleroad and bivouacked for the night. Wednesday, October 8; on the march at 7 oclock. Keedysvilleis passed and we move on over a portion of the Antietam battleground, over the historic Burnside bridge, through the now famousSharpsburg village, and on a mile southeast to within half a mileof the Potomac, and went into camp. FIRST MONTHS OF ARMY LIFE. 65 CAMP HARBAUGH. The location was called Camp Harbaugh, after Wayne CountysProsecuting Attorney. The First, Fourth and Sixteenth Michiganwere camped near us. Wood and water were not easy of spires of Shepherdstown peered out of the woods across thePotomac. It was occupied by Confederates who picketed theopposite bank of the river. Near us were the excavations throughthe canal banks by which Lee a
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