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First Infantry Civil War
First Michigan Infantry
Mr. Greeley, in noticing the affair in the Wilderness, says:
"Hill, having by an early advance secured a strong and sheltered position on a ridge crossing a road, repelled with loss the brigades of Bartlett and Ayres, of Griffin's division, that were first sent against him. "
Crossing the Pamunky river, the regiment advanced to near Cold Harbor, and participated in the engagements near that place on June 1st and 2d, being at Maguolia Swamp and Bethesda Church.
From a report of Colonel Throop regarding services of his regiment at these points:
On the 1st of June our lines were advanced, the regiment acting as a support to the skirmish line, with a loss of four men wounded;
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