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Michigan's
Second Regiment Infantry
Most of them reached the camps near Washington, which they had left in high spirits on the 16th, before daylight. Richardson left Centreville at two o'clock in the morning, when all other troops and batteries had retired, and twelve hours afterward he was with his brigade on Arlington Hights.
During the winter the regiment lay near Alexandria, and in March, in command of Colonel Orlando M. Poe, Lieutenant of the U. S. Engineer corps, who had been commissioned Colonel, September 16th, 1861, in place of Richardson appointed Brigadier General, entered on the Peninsula campaign under General McClellan, serving in Berry's brigade, Kearny's division, Heintzel-man's corps, being the 3d brigade, 3d division, 3d corps, and took part in the seige of Yorktown, and was in the engagements following:
American Civil War
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