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First Infantry Civil War
First Michigan Infantry
Upon Lieutenant Colonel Geo. Lockley being wounded, Brevet Major Cornelius B. Vanvalor assumed the command and at this writing still has command of the regimenti"
After the surrender of Lee the regiment proceeded to City Point, and was on duty there until May 16th, when it took transports for Alexandria, arriving there on the 18th, and on the 16th of June left for Louisville, Ky., by rail, which it reached on the 21st, and encamped near Jeffersonville, Ind. On the 9th of July the regiment was mustered out of service, and started, in command of Colonel Lockley, for Jackson, in this State, on the 10th, arriving there on the 12th, where it was paid off and disbanded.
The First was engaged with the enemy while in service at Mechanicsville, Va., June 26, 1862; Gaines's Mill, Va., June 27, 1862; Peach Orchard, Va., June 29, 1862; Savage Station, Va., June 29,
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