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First Infantry Civil War
First Michigan Infantry
Crossing the Rappahannock and the Rapidan it reached that battle ground on the 30th, after four days of forced and heavy marching, and entered into action there as set forth in the following report of Colonel Abbott, losing three killed and seventeen wounded:
"I have the honor to submit the following report of the operations of this regiment during the late movements of the Army of the Potomac from the 27th of April to the 6th of May:
This regiment with two hundred and seventy-nine men and twenty-three officers attached to the first brigade, first division, fifth corps (commanded respectively by Generals Barnes, Griffin, and Meade), broke camp on Monday, April 27th, and with the brigade marched northward seven miles to near Hartwood church, where the division was bivouacked for the night.
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