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Michigan Civil War
Eighth Regiment Infantry
It moved from Detroit on September 27th, 1861, in command of Colonel Fenton with an aggregate force of 915 on its rolls. Arriving at Washington on the '30th, went into camp on Meridian Hill. On October 9th it left for Annapolis, Maryland, arriving there on the morning of the 10th, where it was assigned to duty as a part of the 2d brigade, " Expeditionary Corps, " under General T. W. Sherman, then under orders for Hilton Head.
On the 19th of October it embarked on the steamship Vanderbilt for that point, and arriving off Port Royal on the 7th, landed at Hilton Head on the 8th.
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