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Michigan Regiments
Twenty-Sixth Regiment Infantry
siege of Petersburg, Va., from June 17, 1864 to April 3, 1865.
The 26th had a membership of 1, 210, while its losses were 259, of which 1 officer and 61 men were killed in action, 2 officers and 37 men died of wounds, and of disease 3 officers and 155 men.
" You, whose lives cold set,
Like a winter's sun ill-timed,
Whose hearts ran down ere yet
The noon of your lives had chimed. "
Note. —A correspondent wrote: The question is often asked in Michigan, ' What has become of the 26th?
American Civil War
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