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First Infantry Civil War
First Michigan Infantry
After the disastrous affair at Bull Run, the regiment, in command of Captain E. W. Belton, entered on the MeClellan campaign in Maryland, and was in the engagement at Antietam on September 17th, and on the 20th was engaged with the enemy at Shepardston Ford.
After the death of Colonel Roberts, Lieutenant Colonel Frank W. Whittle-Bey was Commissioned Colonel, but was absent from the field on account of injuries received in the Peninsula campaign.
In December following the regiment in command of Lieutenant Colonel Abbott was engaged, at the battle of Fredericksburg, with a loss of one officer (Captain J. B. Kennedy) and seven men killed, seven officers and thirty-three
men wounded.
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