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Michigan Regiments
Twenty-Sixth Regiment Infantry
At night the regiment threw up breastworks, and on the 7th charged the enemy's dismounted cavalry and drove them over two miles, capturing a number of prisoners and important dispatches from General Lee to General Stuart, commanding the enemy's cavalry forces. The loss in this action was six wounded. In the "American Conflict" is found the following notice of the 2d corps (Hancock's), in which the 26th was serving, in the engagement in the Wilderness, May 6th:
American Civil War
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