. History of the Twenty-fourth Michigan of the Iron brigade, known as the Detroit and Wayne county regiment .. . virtues and avenge their untimely thousand hearts are beating for you today in your own loved Michigan, andthousands of eyes are looking anxiously for the records of your gallant deeds. Letthat record be as pure, as noble, and as heroic in the future as in the past, and aredeemed and purified land will bless your names and hold them in sweetremembrance. On the following day, July 3, the fragments of the regiment wereformed in four battalion companies, as follows: (1.) A and F
. History of the Twenty-fourth Michigan of the Iron brigade, known as the Detroit and Wayne county regiment .. . virtues and avenge their untimely thousand hearts are beating for you today in your own loved Michigan, andthousands of eyes are looking anxiously for the records of your gallant deeds. Letthat record be as pure, as noble, and as heroic in the future as in the past, and aredeemed and purified land will bless your names and hold them in sweetremembrance. On the following day, July 3, the fragments of the regiment wereformed in four battalion companies, as follows: (1.) A and F under Captain William W. Wight. (2.) D, I and C under Leiutenant John Witherspoon. (3.) H, E and K under Lieutenant Edwin E. Norton. (4.) G and B under Capt William regiment remained on Culps Hill during the terrible struggles ofthe second and third days of the battle. It was not actively engagedexcept to hold back the enemy from occupying Culps Hill. At nineoclock Sunday morning, July 5, it moved to the left near the scene ofPicketts charge where it halted until six oclock the next CHAPTER X. After Gettysburg-i86 PURSUIT AND ESCAIE OF LEE —VALUE OF INTRENCHMENTS. BY THE morning of July 6, the Union army was well underway in pursuit of Lee. At an early hour the Iron Brigadewas on the march amid a heavy rain storm. A march ofeleven miles brought it to the hills east of Emmitsburg andsoon after the Twenty-fourth went on picket. Moving at daylight on the 7th, it passed through Emmitsburgwhere it found the Sixth Corps asleep, having just arrived after an allnights march. Moving forward on the Pike through Franklinsville,Mechanicstown and Catoctin Furnace it halted at Lewiston fordinner, and then turning short to the right, followed up a very rockybranch of the Monocacy. By a steep, narrow, stony path, practicableonly for infantry and packmules, but dry and shady, the Iron Brigadepassed over the Catoctin Mountain and through Hamburg on thesummit. The men
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