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Michigan Cavalry Brigade 2
At Yorktown, on the llth, the regiment embarked on transports for Alexandria, whence it moved to Stevensburg, where it arrived April 18th."
The commanding officer of the 6th Michigan says of his regiment in the same affair:
" On the 28th of February, leaving camp at Stevensburg, It -started on the cavalry raid to Richmond under General Kilpatrick. Its division being attacked near Mechanicsville on the night of the 2d of March, it was obliged to retire, a portion of the 6th Cavalry forming a part of the rear guard. Having succeeded in joining the forces at New Kent Court House, the regiment moved down the Peninsula, and embarking on transports, proceeded to Alexandria, whence it returned to its former camp at Stevensburg."
American Civil War
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