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Civil War
Seventh Regiment Infantry
It was not actively engaged in the second battle of Fredericksburg, which occurred at this date, though being for some time under the fire of the enemy's artillery, it sustained a loss of ten in wounded, and was also engaged at Chancellorsville and Haymarket.
Engaging with the Army of the Potomac in the Pennsylvania campaign the 7th underwent the laborious and forced marches by which it was marked, rendered more arduous by the intense heat of the' weather. On the 27th of June the regiment was detailed as wagon guard at 7: 45 A. M., marched by a circuitous route to near Urbana, Md., where it halted at 3 A. M. on the 28th, a distance said by citizens to have been 37 miles; on the 28th it marched six miles to Monocacy;
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