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Michigan's
Second Regiment Infantry
Report of Colonel Poe:
To Captain Sturgis, A. A. A. G., Kearny's Division:
Sir: —In conformity with instructions from division headquarters, I have the honor to submit the following report of the part taken by the 2d Michigan Volunteers in the action of Monday, the 5th instant, in front of Williamsburg:
After an excessively fatiguing march, the last three miles of which we made without knapsacks, the regiment reached the scene of action about 2 o'clock P. M. I had previously received instructions from the General commanding the division as to the disposition I was to make of the regiment, which without halting went into action, two companies to the right and two companies to the left of the road, six companies being held in reserve. At about 3. 30 to 4 P. M. one more company was thrown from the reserve to the right of the road ana another to the left.
American Civil War
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