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During the Battle of North Anna on May 23-26, 1864, valiant men lost their lives on the battlefields there. Among them was Cpl. Michael Shortell of Company G, 7th Wisconsin Volunteer Infantry, Iron Brigade, who was born on November 24, 1840, in New Brunswick, Canada, enlisted on August 12, 1861, in Stockton, Wisconsin, and died on May 23, 1864, at Jericho Mill, Virginia. He was kept in eternal remembrance by his family and by the descendants of Mary and Lucy Shortell.
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