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they had a chance it was all up with the rebels. Although we gained much ground, and held it, still the principal object of this attack was not accomplished, namely, getting possession of and holding the batteries on the enemy's right. The charge cost us heavily in killed and wounded. General Sherman led the attack in person, and fell severely wounded in the leg. General Neal Dow was also wounded. The Sixth Michigan and One hundred and Twenty.eighth New York have each lost about half their effective men, and the other regiments have suffered severely.

The regiment having received the thanks of General Banks for gallant and efficient service during the siege, was by his order, on July 10th, couverted into a regiment of Heavy Artillery, on account of faithful and valuable services, "to retain, until otherwise officially designated, its infantry number, and to have the organization, pay, clothing, and equipment prescribed by law, and regulations for troops of the artillery arm ;" and on the 30th of July this order was approved by the Secretary of War.

After the siege of Port Hudson, and while the regiment was stationed there, it was rumored that it was to be transferred to service in some of the armies serving farther north. Col. Clark, who was then in the north, wrote to Gen'l Butler, requesting that if the regiment was to be transferred it might be assigned to his command, to which he received the following reply:

HEADQUARTERS DEPARTMENT OF VIRGINIA AND NORTH CAROLINA,
Fort Monroe, January 28, 1864.

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Col. Thos. S. Clark, Com'd'g 6th Mich. Vols.: COLONEL:-In reply to your favor of the 24th inst., the commanding General directs me to inform you that he has forwarded it to the Secretary of War, with the following indorsement:

Respectfully forwarded to the Hon. Secretary of War, with the request that if the 6th Mich. Vols. is to be relieved it may be assigned to my command, as I have the highest respect for officers and men, who have displayed distinguished gallantry and efficiency.

"Signed,

I have the honor to be, Colonel, your ob't servant,

B. F. BUTLER,
"Maj. Gen. Com'ď'g.”

A. F. PUFFER,
Capt. and A. D. C.

The regiment was stationed at Port Hudson, La., until the 11th of March, 1964, where 247 reënlisted, being a sufficient number of veterans to preserve the organization. It started for Michigan, in command of Colonel Edward Bacon. The regiment arrived at Kalamazoo, where it was furloughed for thirty days. Having again assembled at Kalamazoo, it returned to Port Hudson, where it arrived on the 11th of May, with a very large number of recruits, enlisted while in Michigan. On the 6th of June the regiment was ordered to Morganzia, to serve as infantry, where it remained until the 24th of June. From Morganzia it proceeded to Vicksburg, Miss., where it served with the Engineer brigade. Leaving Vicksburg, July 23, it moved to the mouth of the White river, and thence to St. Charles, Ark., where it was attached to a regiment of infantry. A detachment of the regiment, while on a transport en route from Vicksburg to White river, was attacked, near Ashton, Arkansas, on the 24th, by a rebel battery, losing two killed and a number wounded. Remaining but a short time at St. Charles, the regiment again returned to Morganzia, where for a time it was employed as engineers, but soon after its arrival it was ordered to report to the Chief of Artillery, and again returned to duty as Heavy Artillery. The regiment was present at the bombardment and surrender of Fort Morgan, Ala., but arrived too late to participate. On the 1st of

October, 1864, portions of the regiment were stationed respectively at Forts Gaines and Morgan, in Mobile Bay.

Almost the entire service of this regiment, during the war, has been rendered in the extreme Southern States, and on the 1st of November, 1864, it was stationed in Alabama, commanded by Colonel Charles E. Clark, and garrisoned, with its headquarters and Companies A, B, D, G and K, Fort Morgan, and Fort Gaines, Dauphine Island, Mobile Bay, with Companies C, E, F, H and I. Companies B, C, E, F and H, were detached on the 23d of December, and joined an expedition under Major General Gordon Granger to operate from Pensacola against Mobile, and were temporarily attached, as infantry, to the brigade of General Bertram, which led the advance, and so remained until the campaign was advanced from Mobile Point and Pensacola, on the 27th of January, 1865, when Bertram's command made a heavy demonstration on Mobile, the whole command being recalled at night and hurriedly transferred to the advancing force from the east, the detached companies of this regiment being ordered to their former stations in Forts Morgan and Gaines. On the 31st of March, companies A and K were detached from the command at Fort Morgan, and ordered to the front to report to General Granger, and were each equipped with a battery of 10-inch mortars, and on their arrival at the front were ordered into position under the guns of Spanish Fort; there they did very fine execution at a range of 1,400 yards. After the fort was taken, these companies were ordered to man and turn the heavy captured guns, consisting of 7-inch Brooks' rifled and 100 pound Parrotts, on the rebel forts Huger and Tracy, and with them performed good service until all the enemy's works within range were reduced, and Mobile surrendered. On the 10th of April, company B was ordered to the front at Navy Cove, for picket duty, and company E assigned to garrison Fort Powell, where they remained until the regiment was ordered to report to Major General Sheridan. Companies A and K, which had been for some time on duty at Spanish Fort, rejoined the garrison of Fort Morgan on the 20th, and the location of the regiment remained unchanged until July 9th, when it took steamers for New Orleans, with orders to report to Major General Sheridan, where it arrived on the 11th, and encamped at Greenville, four miles above the city. There it was furnished with new camp equipage and wagon train, and put in condition for service in Texas, but on the 5th of August orders were received for its muster-out, which was accomplished on the 20th, and on the 23d the regiment started for Michigan, proceeding by steamer to Cairo, where it arrived on the 28th, and thence by rail to Jackson, Mich., arriving there on the 30th, and on the 5th of September it was paid off and discharged.

The regiment during its term of service met the enemy at Sewell's Point, Va., March 5, 1862. Fort Jackson, La., April 25, 1862. Vicksburg, Miss., May 20, 1862. Grand Gulf, Miss., May 27, 1862. Amite River, Miss., June 20, 1862. Baton Rouge, La., August 5 and 17, 1862. Bayou Teche, La., January 14, 1863. Pouchetoula, La., March 24, 25, and 26, 1863. Barataria, La., April 7, 1863. Tickfaw River, La., April 12, 1863. Amite River, Miss., May 7, 1863. Ponchetoula, La., May 16, 1863. Siege of Port Hudson, May 23 to July 8, 1863. Tunica Bayou, La., November 8, 1863. Ashton, Ark., July 24, 1864. Fort Morgan, Ala., August 23, 1864. Spanish Fort, Ala., April, 1865. Fort Blakely, Ala., April, 1865. Fort Huger, Ala., April, 1865. Fort Tracey, Ala., April, 1865. Siege of Mobile, Ala., from March 20 to April 12, 1865.

The total enrollment of the Sixth was 1,957 officers and men, its losses being 542, of which two officers and 43 men were killed in action, died of wounds 21 men, and of disease six officers and 470 men, being 542 of a total.

"By the flow of the inland river,

Whence the fleets of iron have fled,
Where the blades of new grass quiver,
Asleep are the ranks of the dead."

NOTE.

From the Rebellion Record: "An officer with Banks' army relates, in a private letter, an incident which occurred during a temporary truce at Port Hudson on the 27th of May. He availed himself of the opportunity thus afforded to ride up to the rebel works as close as he could, to get a good view of them, when he saw a regiment of the enemy throw down their arms, and heard them give three cheers, and exclaim, We surrender? The rebel officers at once approached them, and, with drawn swords and pistols, overpowered and controlled them, and compelled them to take up their arms and resume their position."

SEVENTH REGIMENT INFANTRY.

"Strike till the last armed foe expires,
Strike for your altars and your fires,
Strike for the green graves of your sires.
God and your native land."

The Seventh regiment was composed of the companies named below. They were recruited in the neighborhoods indicated therein, and joined their regiment at Monroe. On the formation of the regiment they received the following alphabetical designation, and which they assumed in the regiment in place of their local names:

"A," Union Guard, Port Huron. "B," Curtenius Guard, Mason. "C" Jonesville Light Guard, Jonesville. "D" Monroe Light Guard, Monroe. "E" Tuscola Volunteers, Tuscola. "F," Blair Guard, Farmington. "G," Lapeer Guard, Lapeer. "H." Pontiac. "I" Prairieville Rangers, Prairieville. "K," Burr Oak Rangers, Burr Oak.

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FIELD AND STAFF.

Colonel, Ira R. Grosvenor, Monroe. Lieutenant Colonel, Frazy M. Winans, Monroe. Major, Nathaniel B. Eldridge, Lapeer. Surgeon, Bolivar Barnum, Schoolcraft. Assistant Surgeon, Cyrus Bacon, Detroit. Adjutant, Henry B. Landon, Monroe. Quartermaster, Charles M. Walker, Lapeer. Chaplain,

"A." Captain Thomas H. Hunt, Port Huron. First Lieutenant, Charles J. Hunt, Port Huron. Second Lieutenant, James Gain, Port Huron.

"B." Captain, Phillip McKernan, Mason. First Lieutenant, Lieutenant, John B. Howell,

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"C." Captain, Henry Baxter, Jonesville. First Lieutenant, Sidney B. Vrooman, Jonesville. Second Lieutenant, William W. Wade, Jonesville.

"D." Captain, James Darrah, Monroe. First Lieutenant, Sylvanus W. Curtis, Monroe. Second Lieutenant, Henry B. Landon, Monroe.

"E." Captain, John H. Richardson, Tuscola. First Lieutenant, Samuel N. Smith, Detroit. Second Lieutenant,

"F." Captain, John D. Hardy, Detroit. First Lieutenant, Henry W. Nall, Detroit. Second Lieutenant, Charles A. McKnight, Detroit.

"G." Captain, James H. Turrill, Lapeer. First Lieutenant, Jacob L. Green, Lapeer. Second Lieutenant, Charles M. Walker, Lapeer.

"H." Captain, Joshua P. Sutton, Flint. First Lieutenant, Almeron S. Mathews, Flint. Second Lieutenant, Charles W. Harris, Flint.

"I." Captain, Bezaleel W. Lovell, Lapeer. First Lieutenant, William R. Shafter, Prairieville. Second Lieutenant, Elhanan Phetteplace, Tuscola.

"K." Captain, John H. Waterman, Burr Oak. First Lieutenant, Allen H. Zacharias, Monroe. Second Lieutenant, George H. Laird, Burr Oak.

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The Seventh left Monroe for Virginia on the 5th of September, 1861, in command of Colonel Grosvenor, its muster rolls showing the names of 884

officers and enlisted men. The regiment lay on the Upper Potomac during the winter, and was engaged in the disastrous action at Ball's Bluff, being in Lander's brigade of Stone's division.

A few weeks after the Seventh reached the front, and while it was stationed on the upper Potomac, near Leesburg, a stand of silk regulation colors was purchased and given to it by Colonel Grosvenor, commanding. On one of the stripes was inscribed the motto "Tuebor." In July, 1864, while in the field near Petersburg, Corporal Williams brought for the regiment a flag of heavy blue silk, trimmed with gold fringe, presented by the ladies of Monroe, on which were embroidered the battles of the regiment. It was of rare beauty, and on it were also embroidered the State arms, with the motto "Tuebor" surmounted by an eagle with a scroll, on which was inscribed "Seventh Michigan Volunteers." Below the coat of arms was a double scroll with the inscription "Forlorn Hope of Fredericksburg, Dec. 11, 1862," and underneath, "From the ladies of Monroe."

It followed McClellan to the Peninsula in the Spring of 1862, was in the 3d Brigade, 2d Div., 2d Corps, and sustained severe loss in the battles of that campaign, being engaged at Yorktown, April 4 to May 4. West Point, Va., May 7. Fair Oaks, May 31 to June 1. Peach Orchard and Savage Station, June 29. White Oak Swamp and Glendale, June 30. Malvern Hill, July 1. Bull Run, 2d, Aug. 30.

At Fair Oaks the 7th was in Dana's Brigade of Sumner's Corps, and towards night of that fearful struggle the confederates were pressing forward with great vigor.

Lossing says:

"For a moment the National line was bent and seemed ready to break, but the clear voice of Burns calling out 'Steady men, steady gave them such inspiration that they broke into loud cheers, and held the position firmly. In the face of their terrible volleys the confederates pressed on and charged Brady's battery, whose murderous fire of canister, poured into their compact ranks, made fearful lanes and sent them back in confusion to the woods in their rear. Undismayed by their repulse and the loss of their chief (General Johnston), the confederates again advanced, just as darkness came on, and endeavored to outflank Sumner's right, where Gen. Dana had joined Gorman. After fighting heavily for some time Sumner ordered a bayonet charge by five of his regiments. This was bravely performed. The regiments leaped two fences between them and their foes, rushed upon the confederate line and broke it into dire confusion."

The Seventh was one of the regiments in the charge referred to.

It also participated in the Maryland actions while in command of Colonel N. J. Hall. At the battle of Antietam more than half its force engaged was disabled. Among the killed were Capt. J. H. Turrill, Lieut. J. P. Eberhard, and Lieut. John A. Clark, while Capt. Allen H. Zacharias was mortally wounded.

There was found in the pocket-book of Captain Zacharias a note, dated Fair Oaks, June 28, 1862, and is as follows:

"Allen Howard Zacharias was born May 15, 1833, in Clear Spring, Washington County, Maryland, and removed with his father to Monroe county, Michigan, in 1841. Graduated A. B. from the University of Michigan, June, 1860. Went to Mississippi in September, and became a professor, and in February, 1861, principal of the State Military Institute, at Brandon, in that State. Resigned his position in May, and returned to Michigan, when from a solemn sense of duty, enlisted as a corporal, and was promoted first lieutenant June 25th, and to a captainey March 10, 1862; was with the regiment at Yorktown, West Point, and Fair Oaks, May 31st and June 1st."

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