. History of the Twenty-fourth Michigan of the Iron brigade, known as the Detroit and Wayne county regiment .. . red both with afriendly rivalry for advancement. The day of battle came and foundone sick with pneumonia at Brooks Station, Virginia, sixteen milesfrom the field of Fredericksburg. Knowing that absence from theranks in the engagement might be misconstrued and result in beingoutranked by others in the promotion list, he hastened from a sickbed to find his own regiment, and failing to do this became mingledwith another in the battle and came out both maimed for life and allchances for
. History of the Twenty-fourth Michigan of the Iron brigade, known as the Detroit and Wayne county regiment .. . red both with afriendly rivalry for advancement. The day of battle came and foundone sick with pneumonia at Brooks Station, Virginia, sixteen milesfrom the field of Fredericksburg. Knowing that absence from theranks in the engagement might be misconstrued and result in beingoutranked by others in the promotion list, he hastened from a sickbed to find his own regiment, and failing to do this became mingledwith another in the battle and came out both maimed for life and allchances for promotion forever gone. His comrade on that battledaywon promotion on the field by volunteering to help man a batteryand establish a dangerous picket line. In due time his reward cameas Adjutant of the Twenty-fourth Michigan. While under twenty yearsof age, and having won an honorable record, he was cut down in theharvest of death, on the threshold of early manhood — a martyr to hiscountry. Farewell, friend of our youth ! May his comrades reverehis memory as they pass his grave on the banks of the OUR WOUNDED BURNING UP IN THE WILDERNESS. CHAPTER XIII. Siege of Petersburg-1864 PROGRESS OF THE CAMPAIGN — BROOKS EXPEDITION. ^^ ESS THAN two months had passed when this campaign g against Richmond had cost the Union army over 65,00x3 men Wm in killed, wounded and missing, or more than the entire number in Lees army during this period. This disparity resulted largely, as noted in the last chapter, from the Confederates fighting behind intrenchments, while the Union troops were the assaulting party against whom the hazards of battle are usually greatest. Witness Lee at Malvern Hill, Gettysburg and the Bloody Angle at Spottsylvania ; Burnside at Fredericksburg, and Grant at Laurel Hill and Cold Harbor, not to mention examples in the wars of history. The nation and world stood aghast at this deluge of blood. Gold,to some extent the barometer of national success or failure,
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