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Civil War
Seventh Regiment Infantry
On the 8th it moved to the left, near. the Poe river, and on the 9th crossed the Po. On the 10th it was exposed to a severe fire from sharpshooters, losing four wounded, and on the same day in an assault on the enemy s works on the right, at Spottsylvania Court House, it lost five killed and eight wounded. On the llth it lost three wounded. On the 12th the 7th took part in Hancock s charge on the left of the enemy's line, in which its casualties were eleven wounded. On the 13th it lost three killed and ten wounded. Withdrawing with the army from in front of the enemy's works at Spottsylvania Court House, the regiment arrived at the North Anna river on the 23rd, and was engaged as skirmishers on the 24th at Chesterfield Ford, on the Ny river, where it lost one killed and three wounded.
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