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Civil War
FOURTH REGIMENT INFANTRY
In the first collision on the Chickahominy between the advance of McClellan's army and the rebels at Newbridge, on May 24th, the 4th, led by Colonel Woodbury, waded the stream under a heavy fire and gallantly assailed and drove off a superior force, losing only eight men, while it captured thirty-seven prisoners, of whom fifteen were wounded.
In this battle one Piper was killed, who had a brother in the same company, to whom an officer said, Your brother has been shot, and if you want to see him alive hurry from here to where they have taken him. " I can't leave, " replied the brother. "I have no time now to look after dying brothers. My country has the highest claim on me. "
Michigan in the Civil War
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