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Colored Infantry Civil War
Regiment Coloed Infantry
102D U.S.
left Beaufort and joined General Foster's cooperating column at Boyd's Landing, and was engaged with the enemy at Honey Hill, S. C, on November 30th following, at Tillifinny December 7th, and at Devaux Neck on the 9th by a detachment of the regiment consisting of twelve officers and three hundred men, that had been sent from Beaufort to join the forces of General Foster. This detachment was commanded by Captain Montague, Colonel Chipman being in command of a brigade. At the points named the officers and men referred to, most gallantly engaged a superior force of the enemy, sustaining an aggregate loss in these affairs of sixty-five in killed and wounded;
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