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American Civil War
Sixth Regiment Infantry
but while in the act intelligence was received that both Forts Jackson and St. Phillips had surrendered, and consequently the expedition ended, and after the destruction of a bridge in that vicinity it proceeded to the mouth of the Mississippi, thence up that river by boats to New Orleans, arriving there on the 2d of May, taking possession of the U. S. mint, and being one of the first regiments to occupy that city after its capture by the Union troops.
On the"9th of May the regiment, with its brigade, took boats and proceeded about 37 miles up the Mississippi, and, disembarking, started inland, marching all night through a cypress swamp in water so deep as to require great effort to save the ammunition from ruin, while the rations were all destroyed.
Michigan Civil War
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