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 [...]
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F. Captain, John D. Harty, 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. Button,, Flint. First Lieutenant, Aimeron S. Mathews, Flint. Second Lieutenant, Charles W. Harris, Flint. I. [...]
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It followed McClellan to the Peninsula in the spring of 1862, was in the 3d brigade, 2d division, 2d corps, and sustained severe loss in the battles of that campaign, being engaged at Yorktown, April 4. to May 5; West Point, Va., May 7; Fair Oaks, May 31 to June 1; Peach Orchard and Savage [...]
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This was bravely performed. The regiments leaped two fences between them and their foes, rushing upon the Confederate line and broke it into dire confusion. ” Following the battle of Bull Bun, the 7th entered upon the Maryland campaign, in command of Colonel Norman J. Hall, then a first lieutenant 5th U. S. Artillery, a [...]
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Resigned his position in May and returned to Michigan, when, from a solemn sense of duty, he enlisted as a corporal, and was promoted first lieutenant June 25th, and to a captaincy March 10th, 1862, and was with the regiment at Yorktown, West Point, and Fair Oaks, May 31st and June 1st. Upon the other [...]
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And first came out the thick, thick blood And then came out the thin, And then came out the bonnie heart’s blood There was nae mair within. ” At the capture of Fredericksburg, December 13, while serving in Colonel Hall’s brigade, it volunteered to dislodge the rebel sharpshooters who were impeding the construction of the [...]
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The regiment in this gallant affair was commanded by Lieutenant Colonel Henry Baxter, who was severely wounded on the occasion while crossing the river, Lieutenant Franklin Emery being among the killed. Two pontoon bridges had already been built on the extreme left, but it was decided that the crossing could not be undertaken until the [...]
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The congregated generals were transfixed. Mingled satisfaction and awe was upon every face. But what was tantalizing was, that though a great deal could be heard, nothing could be seen, the city being still enveloped in fog and mist. Only a denser pil-jar of smoke defining itself on the background of the fog, indicated where [...]
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For this mission General Burnside called for volunteers, and Colonel Hall (7lh Michigan), of Fort Sumter fame, immediately responded that he had a brigade that would do the business. Accordingly the 7th Michigan and 19th Massachusetts, two small regiments, numbering in all about four hundred men, were selected for the purpose. “The plan was, that [...]
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The first boat pushes off. Now, if ever, is the rebels’ opportunity. Crack! crack! crack! from fifty lurking places go rebel rifles at the gallant fellows, who, stooping low in the boat, seek to avoid the fire. The murderous work was well done. Lustily, however, pull the oarsmen. Having passed the middle of the stream, [...]
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