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American Civil War
SIXTEENTH REGIMENT INFANTRY
The regiment crossed the Rappahannock and the Rapidan, and from the 2d to the 5th of May, 1863, was engaged in the battle of Chancellorsville, with a loss of one killed and six wounded.
Captain Edward Hill, of the regiment, in a communication says:
' "In this affair, on the morning of the 3d, when the 11th corps had been paralyzed, broken up, and scattered by Stonewall Jackson's troops, and the 5th corps, then under Mead, were being hurried into position to, if possible, stay the rout, Mead ordered General Griffin, commanding the 1st division, to sieze and hold a small eminence to the right of the Chancellorsville House,
Michigan in the Civil War
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