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Michigan Civil War
Eighth Regiment Infantry
The detachment at Ladies island surprised and took prisoners on December 18th. On the same day the regiment moved to a point on the shell road about six miles from Beaufort, where the first and second companies, Captains Gould and Walbridge, with Captain Elder and fifteen men, in command of Colonel Fenton, embarked in boats, and on reconnoitering the shore opposite Brickyard Point, on the Coosaw river, found the enemy in force, receiving fire from a two-gun battery, when a gun from the steamer May Flower, aground on the bar, opened on the battery, and covered the detachment so that it was enabled to withdraw with a loss of one killed.
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