6th Michigan Volunteer Infantry Regiment
- 6th Michigan Volunteer Infantry Regiment
Infobox Military Unit
unit_name= 6th Regiment Michigan Volunteer Infantry
caption=Michigan state flag
dates= August 20, 1861 to June 10, 1863
country= United States
allegiance= Union
branch= Infantry
equipment=
battles= Battle of Baton Rouge
Siege of Port Hudson
The 6th Regiment Michigan Volunteer Infantry was an infantry regiment that served in the Union Army during the American Civil War.
ervice
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.
Total strength and casualties
The regiment suffered 2 officers and 76 enlistedmen who were killed in action or motally wounded and 6 officers and 498 enlisted men who died of disease, for a total of 582 fatalities. [http://www.civilwararchive.com/Unreghst/unmiinf1.htm The Civil War Archive website after Dyer, Frederick Henry. A Compendium of the War of the Rebellion. 3 vols. New York: Thomas Yoseloff, 1959.]
Commanders
*Colonel
ee also
*List of Michigan Civil War Units
*Michigan in the American Civil War
Notes
References
* [http://www.civilwararchive.com/unionmi.htm The Civil War Archive]
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