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First Infantry Civil War
First Michigan Infantry
During the following eight days it was almost continuously engaged in battle, or in skirmishing, sustaining large losses, especially at the battle of Alsop's Farm, on the 8th, where the regiment came out of the engagement with only twenty-three men. Pressing forward with the army, it participated in the battles of Spottsylvania on the l0th, 11th, and 12th; on the 21st was engaged at Nye River, on the 23d at North Anna, 24th at Jerico Mills, and was also in the affair at Noel's Tavern on the 26th, and on the 30th at Tolopotomy.
Following is from a report of Colonel Throop, covering the services of his regiment in detail:
"I have the honor to submit the following report of the part taken by the 1st infantry in the present campaign for the month of May:
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