Service
The 6th Michigan Infantry was organized by Francis William Kellogg at Kalamazoo, Michigan, and mustered into Federal service for a three-year enlistment on August 20, 1861.
The regiment was converted to the 6th Regiment Michigan Volunteer Heavy Artillery on June 10, 1863, by the order of Major General Nathaniel Banks for distinguished service in the Siege of Port Hudson.
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“Whatever events in progress shall disgust men with cities, and infuse into them the passion for country life, and country pleasures, will render a service to the whole face of this continent, and will further the most poetic of all the occupations of real life, the bringing out by art the native but hidden graces of the landscape.”
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