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Title: History of the Michigan organizations at Chickamauga, Chattanooga and Missionary Ridge, 1863 (electronic resource)
Year: 1899 (1890s)
Authors: Belknap, Charles Eugene, 1846-1929
Subjects: Chickamauga, Battle of, Ga., 1863 Chattanooga, Battle of, Chattanooga, Tenn., 1863 Missionary Ridge, Battle of, Tenn., 1863
Publisher: Lansing, Mich. : R. Smith Print. Co.
Contributing Library: Emory University, Robert W. Woodruff Library
Digitizing Sponsor: Emory University, Robert W. Woodruff Library

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d sides and heights ofMissionary Ridge; for these, our very bravest of the brave, with a sublime moralcourage unsurpassed, unterrified by the tortures of slow starvation, andunseduced from their allegiance by the blandishments of office, and of reward,and of abundance of food, perished in rebel prisons. The human tongue,the pen, the artists brush, the sculptors chisel, all in vain essay their virtuesand their deeds to tell. Today, as fruits of these great sacrifices we have oneNation, one flag, one destiny. Long after these monuments of granite andbronze shall have decayed and crumbled into dust, aye, until time mergesinto eternity, may this Nation live, and the heroic deeds and virtues of thosewho fell in its defense be perpetuated. Well may the poet sing: In the cause of justice trust,Die we may and die we must;But oh! where shall dust to dust Be consigned so well,As where heaven her dews shall shedOer the gallant patriots bed,And the rocks shall rear their headOf his deeds to tell?
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MONUMENT, CHURCHS BATTERY D, FIRST MICHIGAN LIGHT ARTILLERY. HISTORY OP MICHIGAN ORGANIZATIONS. 269 BATTERY D (CHURCHS BATTERY) met at their monument and held an informal reunion. There were present Corporal Henry Seymour, Gunner Ira Buell, PrivatesL. S. Burnett, G. W. Stafford, C. S. Burnett, Corporal Lyman Carpenter,Corporal Fred Knox, Ira Crandall, Sidney Buell, Sergeant H. D. Baker. There was no special service at this monument. It was a source of greatregret that so small a number was present. They gathered around the monu-ment and rehearsed the memories of those September days of 1863. This monument bears the following inscription: MICHIGAN To Her FIRST LIGHT BATTERY D, Commanded by Captain Josiah W. Church. Connells Brigade, Brannans Division, Thomas Corps. The battery moved from Gowers Ford on the evening of the 18th, marchingthe entire night to a position near the Kelly house, being heavily engaged intwo positions on the 19th. About midnight of the 19th. advanced frombivouac

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