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Michigan's
Second Regiment Infantry
on Monday, the 22d, and went into camp, having moved in rear of all other regiments and batteries. At Fairfax we were so far in rear that no troops (of our own forces) were in eight. Will you do my brigade the credit of this correction.
I. B. RICHARDSON,
Captain James B. Fry,
' Colonel.
Assistant Adjutant General, Arlington.
Lossing is good authority on this point, and says:
"Leaving the sick, and wounded, and dying, who could not be removed, under proper care-takers in a stone church at Centreville (which was used a long time as a hospital), the army moved forward at a little past ten o'clock, with Colonel Richardson's brigade as a rear-guard.
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