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U. S. Civil War
Twenty Seventh Regiment Infantry
during the night the regiment moved to the right of the captured fort, and there threw up breastworks connecting it with the federal picket line, and on the 3d at 3 A. M. advanced and entered Petersburg, the enemy having withdrawn during the previous night. After the evacuation of Petersburg by the rebels the regiment participated in the pursuit of the retreating columns of Lee's army, and was afterwards employed in picketing along the South Side railroad until the 18th, when it was ordered to Washington, where it took part in the review of the army of the Potomac on the 23d, and then encamped near Tannallytown, D. C. "
Michigan
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