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fifth, Sixth & seventh Calvary
It is now in possession of General Kidd, and is a highly prized souvenir of the regiment.
During its term of service the 6th carried on the rolls 1,624 officers and men. Its casualties reported in 1863 were 36 died in action or of wounds, 45 of disease, 77 missing in action. In 1864, 55 died in action or of wounds, 44 of disease, with 5 missing in action.
Its loss as finally reported was 7 officers and 95 men killed in action, 18 men died of wounds, and 266 of disease.
" 'Midst tangled roots that lined the -wild ravine,
Where the fierce fight raged hottest through the day,.
And where the dead in scattered heaps were seen,
Speechless in death they lay."
Michigan in the Civil War
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