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First Infantry Civil War
First Michigan Infantry
On the 1st day of August the regiment lay in the trenches before Petersburg, where it had lain during the month of July. We lay there doing picket and fatigue duty until the morning of the 16th, when we were relieved by a part of the 9th corps and moved back from the front, and were held in reserve until the 18th, when we took up the line of march for the Weldon railroad with the brigade. Arriving there about 12 M., we halted and rested in line of battle in rear of the ' Six Mile House' until 3 P. M., when we moved to the support of the 3d division of this corps which was then engaged with the enemy on the right of the railroad. From thence we were moved to the left of the railroad, nearly in front of the ' Six Mile House, and proceeded to erect breastworks, after which we bivouacked for the night.
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