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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“We too are ashes as we watch and hear
The psalm, the sorrow, and the simple praise
Of one whose promised thoughts of other days
Were such as ours, but now wholly destroyed,
The service record of his youth wiped out,
His dream dispersed by shot, must disappear.”
—Karl Shapiro (b. 1913)
“It’s 10 p.m. Do you know where your children are?”
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—Ralph Waldo Emerson (1803–1882)