Evening Republican, Volume 14, Number 130, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 1 June 1910 — Both, Pierced by Bayonets. [ARTICLE]

Both, Pierced by Bayonets.

Notable in the chronicles of the Second Michigan infantry is an official report by its colonel, Orlando M. Poe, about the battle at Williamsburg. He found one of his men “dead beside a dead foe, each transfixed with the other’s bayonet."