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Civil War
Seventh Regiment Infantry
For this mission General Burnside called for volunteers, and Colonel Hall (7lh Michigan), of Fort Sumter fame, immediately responded that he had a brigade that would do the business. Accordingly the 7th Michigan and 19th Massachusetts, two small regiments, numbering in all about four hundred men, were selected for the purpose.
"The plan was, that they should take the pontoon boats of the first bridge, of which there were ten lying on the bank of the river, waiting to be added to the half finished bridge", cross over in them, and landing, drive out the rebels.
American Civil War
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