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fifth, Sixth & seventh Calvary
" Cry havoc and let slip the dogs of war. Let them not live to take this land's increase That would with treason wound this fair land's peace."
The 6th Cavalry was organized at Grand Rapids under authority granted to the Hon. F. W. Kellogg, M. C, by the War Department, approved by the Governor. Its recruitment being completed, it was mustered into the service of the United States on the 13th of October, 1862, with 1,229 officers and men on the rolls.
FIELD AND STAFF.
Colonel, George Gray, Grand Rapids. Lieutenant Colonel, Russell A. Alger, Detroit. Majors, Thaddeus Foote, Grand Rapids'; Elijah D. Waters, Grand Rapids'; and Simeon B. Brown, St. Clair. Surgeon, Daniel G. Weare, Pentwater. Assistant Surgeon, David C. Spalding, Lyons. Adjutant, Hiram P. Hale, Battle Creek. Quartermaster, Charles H. Patten, Grand Rapids'. Commissary, Jacob Chapman, Lowell. Chaplain, Stephen S. N. Greely, Grand Rapids'.
Michigan in the Civil War
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