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Twenty-eighth Regiment Infantry
arriving at Morehead City, N. C,, on the 24th, it took rail for Newbern, reaching there on the 25th, and on the 2d of March moved with its division (Rugers) toward Kingston, and joined General Cox, constituting a part of the force concentrating in the vicinity of Wilmington, intending to cooperate with General Sherman's army on its approach to the coast.
From the Red Book of Michigan:
"Meeting the enemy at "Wise Forks, the 28th, commanded by Colonel "Wheeler, took an active part in the battles of the 8th, 9th, and 10th, at that point. On the 8th the regiment was engaged in heavy skirmishing during the entire day and the night following.
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