[Civil War Michigan:] War Song. Battle of Lavergne.

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Subtitled: “Fought January 1st, 1863, between the Michigan, Engineers and Mechanics, under Col. Innes, and a Brigade of Cavalry and two pieces of Artillery under the rebel Gen. Wheeler.”

In sixteen four-line stanzas, the poem casts the Battle of Lavergne, Tennessee, as a heroic engagement in which outnumbered Union infantry defeated Confederate cavalry under General Wheeler.

Mark Hoffman, in “My Brave Mechanics”: The First Michigan Engineers and Their Civil War (2007), notes that the poem’s author is unknown, but that it “was in circulation within the regiment in printed form by the fall of 1864.”

Not recorded in OCLC.

Price: $125.00