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Michigan's
Second Regiment Infantry
I. Captain, Dwight May, Kalamazoo. First Lieutenant, William J. Handy, Kalamazoo. Second Lieutenant, John M. Norvell, Detroit.
K. Captain, Charles S. May, Kalamazoo. First Lieutenant, George W. Park, Kalamazoo. Second Lieutenant, Harry C. Church, Kalamazoo.
The regiment moved from its rendezvous at Fort Wayne, June 6th, for the field in Virginia, arriving in Washington on June 10th, and a few days later took up its quarters at Camp Winfield Scott, on Washington Hights.
The ladies of Niles gave a National color of silk to Company E before it left that city to join the regiment in Detroit, which afterward became the regimental color. It was carried by the regiment through all its hard fought battles up to and including Fredericksburg, when it had become so tattered by wear, and by some forty bullet holes, that it was deemed unserviceable, and was returned to the donors, who treasure it highly.
American Civil War
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