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American Civil War
SIXTEENTH REGIMENT INFANTRY
We were all ordered back at once, which was safely done as far as all were concerned except the 118th Pennsylvania, a new and inexperienced regiment, which was in the rear. It lost some few men, mostly wounded. "
Leaving Harper's Ferry on November 1st, with the 1st brigade, on the 23d the regiment arrived at Falmouth, crossing the Rappahannock on the 12th of December in command of Lieutenant Colonel Welch, Colonel Stockton being in command of the brigade. On the 13th it participated with the army of the Potomac in the battle of Fredericksburg, losing three killed, thirty wounded, and eight missing.
Michigan in the Civil War
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