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First Infantry Civil War
First Michigan Infantry
I went into the first day's fight (May 5th) with 176 muskets, and have to-day 104 muskets. My losses have been made up partly by the return of slightly wounded men to duty and the return to the regiment of a number of detached men. At the battle of Island Ford, ' or ' Jericho's Mill, the evening we crossed the North Anna River, May 23d, we were engaged with the enemy for an hour and a half, but having the advantage of some hastily constructed breastworks, made of fence rails, our loss was small. Captain Lockley was severely wounded through the thigh in this fight.
Captain L. C. Randall was killed in a night skirmish with the enemy on the night of the 10th. His body was carried to the rear, and interred with proper religious ceremonies by Chaplain Rowden.
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