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Civil War
FOURTH REGIMENT INFANTRY
Mr. Greeley, in his American Conflict, " says:
"The first collision on the Chickahominy between the advance of General McClellan's army and the rebels occurred near New Bridge, where the 4th Michigan, Colonel Woodbury, waded the stream and assailed and drove off a superior force, losing but eight men in all, and taking thirty-seven prisoners, of whom fifteen were wounded.
A correspondent of the N. Y. Herald, writing from Cold Harbor, Va., under date of May 24th, 1862, says of the affair at Newbridge:
"The most important skirmish that has occurred between our troops and the rebels in front of Richmond took place this morning.
Michigan in the Civil War
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