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Civil War
Seventh Regiment Infantry
It followed McClellan to the Peninsula in the spring of 1862, was in the 3d brigade, 2d division, 2d corps, and sustained severe loss in the battles of that campaign, being engaged at Yorktown, April 4. to May 5; West Point, Va., May 7; Fair Oaks, May 31 to June 1; Peach Orchard and Savage Station, June 29; White Oak Swamp and Glendale, June 30; Malvern Hill, July 1; Bull Run 2d, August 30.
At Fair Oaks the 7th was in Dana's brigade of Sumner's corps, and towards night of that fearful struggle the Confederates were pressing forward with great vigor, and the regiment became heavily engaged in the charge referred to in the following notice.
American Civil War
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