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First Infantry Civil War
First Michigan Infantry
On the 14th it broke camp at Morrisville, and the 19th and 21st was in brisk skirmishes with the enemy's cavalry at Aldie. On the 26th the regiment crossed the Potomac into Maryland at Edwards's Ferry, and after laborious and exhausting marches under a broiling sun it reached Gettysburg, Pa., at 1. 30 A. M. of July 2d. It entered into battle with the 5th corps on the same day in command of Colonel Abbott, with a force of 20 officers and 125 men. Colonel Abbott being wounded early in the engagement, Lieutenant Colonel W. A. Throop assumed command. It sustained a loss of one officer, Captain Amos Ladd, and four men killed, and six officers and twenty-five men wounded, with eight missing. A more detailed account of the part taken by the regiment is found in the following extract from the report of Colonel Throop:
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