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Michigan in the Civil War
SEVENTEENTH REGIMENT INFANTRY
The march to the latter place, a distance of 186 miles, was accomplished in ten and one-half days. From Nicho-lasville the regiment proceeded by railroad to Annapolis. It here received about 200 recruits. Marching, with its corps, from Annapolis via Washington and Alexandria, it joined the army of the Potomac near Warrenton Junction, Virginia, and engaging in the campaign of 1864, it crossed the Rapidan at Germania Ford on the 5th of May, in command of Colonel Luce, and on the 6th engaged the enemy in the Wilderness.
Civil War
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