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Michigan Regiments
Twenty-Sixth Regiment Infantry
The casualties sustained in the assault were 15 wounded and 5 missing. From the 3d to the 12th the regiment was on the skirmish line and in the intrenchments, and lost 3 men killed, 7 wounded, and 1 missing. At midnight on the 14th it crossed the James river at Wilcox's Landing, and on the morning of the 16th arrived in front of Petersburg. The regiment participated in the assault of the 16th, in which the first line of the enemy's rifle pits was carried. It lost in the attack its commanding officer, Captain James A. Lothian, who was mortally wounded, and 2 men killed and 9 wounded. From the "American Conflict:
American Civil War
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