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and privates, only four are now left. The first signs of war in Lenawee county were at midnight in the month of May, 1832. The drums beat the "long roll, " and, forming our ranks, we marched two days through the wilderness to Niles. On the outskirts of Coldwater prairie a midnight battle was fought; powder was used freely, and the limbs and bark of the neighboring forest trees were roughly dealt with, but the Black Hawk tribe retreated. Thus we see the importance of the military arm of our. service. With discipline and undaunted bravery it maintained our rights near the Ohio line, and among
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