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First Infantry Civil War
First Michigan Infantry
Orders were soon received to retire, which movement I believe to have been a mistaken one.
"Falling back to Chancellorsville, and marching off to our right about one mile, we encamped for the night. On Friday morning the brigade was sent out upon a' reconnois-sance along a road leading to the Rappahannock, whose banks we traversed southward to a point below Scott's Dam Ford; ' and obtaining the desired information of the enemy we returned during the afternoon to near Chancellorsville. On our arrival the brigade formed in line of battle, remaining thus until about midnight. In the meantime the enemy shelled the woods vigorously, and a man of the 22d Massachusetts Infantry lost both legs by a solid shot.
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