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The Wisconsin Eleventh Infantry, under Colonel Charles L. Harris, Lieutenant Colonel Charles A. Wood, and Major Arthur Platt, was engaged at Port Gibson on May 1, Big Black River Bridge on May 17, in the assault on May 22, and in the siege from May 23 to July 4. Its aggregate casualties were 151, with 14 killed and 137 wounded. Lieutenant Hiram E. Smith was killed, and Captain Daniel Hough, Captain John Alfred Peaslee, and Lieutenant James Law were mortally wounded.
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