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First Infantry Civil War
First Michigan Infantry
We are fully clothed and equipped, and are receiving abundant supplies of good, wholesome rations, with vegetables and dried fruit in liberal quantities. Casualties: Killed, two; wounded, fourteen, including Lieutenant Woodruff, mortally. "
Proceeding to the James river, it crossed that stream on the 16th of June, and on the 17th arrived in front of the city of Petersburg, and was engaged on the 18th. From this date to the 17th of August, when it was relieved, the regiment was engaged in the construction of fortifications and in the trenches in front of Petersburg. The weather being exceedingly warm and the labor very great, the hardships which the regiment endured during this period were very severe.
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