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First Regiment Heavy Artillery

Spotsylvania County, Virginia
· Massachusetts Volunteers
Military
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The First Regiment Heavy Artillery, Massachusetts Volunteers, armed as infantry, fought here on May 13, 1864, in an action between a division of the Union Army commanded by General Tyler and a corps of the Confederate forces under General Ewell. Three hundred and ninety eight members of the regiment fell within an hour around this spot. The regiment's survivors later erected this tribute in 1901.
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