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Civil War
Seventh Regiment Infantry
on the 29th it marched at 9 A. M., and reached Union-town at 9 P. M., 32 miles in 12 hours; " thus, in three days marching 75 miles. The regiment arrived on the field at Gettysburg on the 2d of July and was immediately sent to the front on Cemetery Hill, having 14 officers and 151 men. It occupied the same position until the close of the battle on the 3d. The loss of the regiment at Gettysburg was 21 killed (among whom was its commanding officer, Lieutenant Colonel Amos E. Steele), and 44 wounded, including among the killed Lieutenant Albert Slafter. The 4th of July was occupied in burying the dead, caring for the wounded, and in issuing rations to the men who had been without rations for two days.
American Civil War
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