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First Infantry Civil War
First Michigan Infantry
Our casualties for the month are four wounded and four missing in action.
From a correspondent:
" Since my last we have changed our position a little. We now lay about three miles further to the left, on the Weldon railroad, some three miles from the city. We came here on the 18th of August, by a rapid march, surprising the enemy and capturing a number of his pickets. Possession was immediately taken of the road, and the work of demolition commenced. The enemy soon saw what had been lost, and made desperate efforts to regain the ground, and drive us away; but they soon found on this occasion, as on many others, that driving the 5th corps is no child's play. I will not go into a minute description of the fighting that has taken place since the 18th of August for this railroad.
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