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Civil War
Seventh Regiment Infantry
Farmville, Va., April 7, 1865; siege of Petersburg, Va., from June 17, 1864, to April 3, 1865.
It had a total membership of 1, 393. Its losses were: Killed in action, 6 officers, 123 men; died of wounds, 5 officers, 47 men; of disease, 3 officers, 154 men; a total of 338 officers and men.
"Best,
Best the patriot heart,
That never quailed with fear In treason's fiery test. "
Note. —"When the 7th Michigan was forming at Fort "Wayne, Chas. M. Walker, a young lawyer, very short in stature, rendered so by a shortness of legs, since deceased, was very anxious to enlist. One morning before the colonel reached his office, the young man seated himself at the colonel's table. The colonel entered and sat down, and the young man says: " Colonel, I want to enlist in your regiment; please give an order for an officer to muster me in.
American Civil War
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