Federal Regiment

7th Michigan Infantry

Organized: Monroe, MI; mustered in 8/22/1861
Disbanded/Mustered out: Jackson, MI 7/5/1865

Commanding Officers on the Antietam Campaign:
Col. Norman J. Hall
Capt. Charles J. Hunt

This Regiment's Chain of Command:
  Army - Army of the Potomac
  Corps - Second Army Corps
  Division - 2nd Division, 2nd Corps
  Brigade - 3rd Brigade, 2nd Division, 2nd Corps

Unit history

The Seventh left Monroe Sept. 5, 1861, with 884 officers and enlisted men, under the command of Colonel Ira B. Grosvenor to join the Army of the Potomac. The next month after its arrival at the front, the Regiment took part in the battle of Ball's Bluff.

In the spring of 1862 the Regiment was assigned to the Third Brigade, Second Division, Second Corps in the Peninsular Campaign. It fought at Yorktown, Fair Oaks, Savage Station, White Oak Swamp, Glendale, Malvern Hill, and Manassas.

Colonel Norman J. Hall was commissioned to fill the vacancy caused by the resignation of Colonel Grosvenor, assuming command in July 1862.

On the Antietam Campaign

When called to assume command of the Brigade, Col Hall says (in his report) that he left Captain Hunt in command of the Regiment, Lieutenant-Colonel Baxter having been disabled by wounds.

Map Showing this Unit

Detail Map #5: Sedgwick is Flanked in the West Woods (9-10am)

Battlefield Tablets for this Unit

Tablet #35: Second Army Corps - 15 Sep, 7 AM to 15 Sep, 8 PM
Tablet #115: Second Army Corps - 15 Sep, 9 AM to 17 Sep, 7 AM
Tablet #120: Army of the Potomac - 17 Sep, 5 AM to 17 Sep, 12 PM
Tablet #116: Second Army Corps - 17 Sep, 6 AM to 17 Sep, 10 AM
Tablet #36: Sedgwick's Division, Second Army Corps - 17 Sep, 7 AM to 17 Sep, 10 AM
Tablet #38: Dana's Brigade, Sedgwick's Division - 17 Sep, 7 AM to 17 Sep, 12 PM

After the Antietam Campaign

The Seventh gained an enviable reputation at Fredericksburg in Dec., 1862 when it was first to cross the Rappahannock River in pontoon boats under the fire of opposing sharpshooters, and drove the Confederate skirmishers from their cover. Col Baxter was wounded in the lead of the Regiment.

At Gettysburg on the 2nd of July, being they were assigned to a position on Cemetery Ridge, which it retained until the close of battle on the 3rd. The Regiment took 14 officers and 151 men into action, and lost 21 killed and 44 wounded.

In August the Regiment was sent to New York to aid in supressing the Draft Riots there. In October it was again with the Army of the Potomac, and remained through Appomattox.

References & Notes

Summary text above from the State of Michigan1.

We have 155 individuals in the AotW database who were on the Maryland Campaign with this unit:

Co.	Rank	Name	Casualty?
A	Pvt	Ackles, James	Died (d) 09/28
A	Pvt	Collins, Samuel	MWIA 09/17
A	Pvt	Davis, DeWitt Clinton	KIA 09/17
A	Pvt	Ellis, David	WIA 09/17
A	Sgt	Fechet, Edmond Gustave	WIA 09/17
A	Capt	Hunt, Charles J.	WIA 09/17
A	Pvt	Stephenson, Thomas W.	WIA 09/17
A	Pvt	Tennyson, Jim	KIA 09/17
A	Pvt	Turk, Alfred	KIA 09/17
B	Pvt	Abbott, Perry	WIA 09/17
B	Pvt	Armstrong, Alvin	AWOL 09/29
B	Pvt	Baker, Edwin E.	WIA 09/17
B	Pvt	Bangs, Chester H.	WIA 09/17
B	Lt	Bath, Henry D.	WIA 09/17
B	Pvt	Eaton, Edwin G.	WIA 09/17
B	Pvt	Gibbs, Andrew	WIA 09/17
B	Pvt	Gunn, Henry N.	WIA 09/17
B	Pvt	Holden, Lewis A.	WIA 09/17
B	Sgt	Miller, Oscar E.	KIA 09/17
B	Pvt	Palmer, Alonzo D.	KIA 09/17
B	Pvt	Palmer, George	MWIA 09/17
B	Pvt	Reynolds, David B.	MWIA 09/17
B	Pvt	Seeley, Jr., Theron Bailey	KIA 09/17
B	Pvt	Slack, Dwight C.	KIA 09/17
C	Pvt	Avery, Orril W.	WIA 09/17
C	Corp	Brain, William T.	WIA 09/17
C	Pvt	Fullerton, John B.	WIA 09/17
C	Pvt	Hartshorn, Henry L.	KIA 09/17
C	Corp	Higby, Hamilton Alexander	MWIA 09/17
C	Pvt	Kimmell, Andrew J.	WIA 09/17
C	Pvt	Lawrence, David W.	KIA 09/17
C	Pvt	Musser, William H.	KIA 09/17
C	Pvt	Myers, Christopher	WIA 09/17
C	Pvt	Reynolds, Clark	KIA 09/17
C	Pvt	Smith, Alonzo	WIA 09/17
D	Pvt	Anderson, John C.	WIA 09/17
D	Pvt	Calkins, Russell	KIA 09/17
D	Lt	Clark, John A.	KIA 09/17
D	Pvt	DeShetler, Basil Laban	MWIA 09/17
D	Pvt	Goodenough, Thomas Watkins	MWIA 09/17
D	Pvt	Hanson, John	MWIA 09/17
D	Sgt	La Pointe, George W.
D	Pvt	Lauclause, Gustavus	MWIA 09/17
D	Lt	Livingston, Samuel
D	Pvt	Robert, Thomas	KIA 09/17
D	Pvt	Straus, John	KIA 09/17
D	Pvt	Thomas, Charles W.	KIA 09/17
E	Pvt	Anger, Abraham	KIA 09/17
E	Pvt	Arnot, Truman	WIA 09/17
E	Pvt	Ash, Jr., William	KIA 09/17
E	Pvt	Baxter, Hiram H.	WIA 09/17
E	Corp	Hurd, Robert B.	KIA 09/17
E	Pvt	Lamson, Virgil R.	Died (d) 09/19
E	Pvt	Love, James	KIA 09/17
E	Pvt	Richley, Louis	KIA 09/17
E	Capt	Smith, Samuel N.	WIA 09/17
E	Pvt	Spalding, Wesley B.	KIA 09/17
F	Corp	Armstrong, Henry	WIA 09/17
F	Pvt	Bensfeld, Nicholas	WIA 09/17
F	Pvt	Dibble, George	WIA 09/17
F	Corp	Fliege, Henry	MWIA 09/17
F	Pvt	Graveldinger, Frank	KIA 09/17
F	Sgt	Harbach, Samuel W.	WIA 09/17
F	Pvt	Harding, Joseph	MWIA 09/17
F	Pvt	Hilser, Ingelbert	MWIA 09/17
F	Pvt	Hunter, Florence	WIA 09/17
F	Pvt	Kuhnel, George	MWIA 09/17
F	Pvt	Manning, Albert	MWIA 09/17
F	Corp	Reed, Albert	KIA 09/17
F	Pvt	Renz, Louis	KIA 09/17
F	Pvt	Spoth, Andrew	MWIA 09/17
G	Pvt	Almas, William	WIA 09/17
G	Pvt	Balcomb, Jr., Stephen	WIA 09/17
G	Pvt	Ballard, Lamont
G	Pvt	Beckwith, Daniel	WIA 09/17
G	Pvt	Bradshaw, Silas N.	WIA 09/17
G	Pvt	Chaplin, George W.	MIA (r) 09/17
G	Lt	Coats, James Benjamin	Died (d) 11/13
G	Pvt	Conklin, Theodore R.	MIA (r) 09/17
G	Pvt	Glassford, John Angus	WIA 09/17
G	Pvt	Hoffman, Jr., Samuel	WIA 09/17
G	Pvt	Holman, George E.	MIA (r) 09/17
G	Pvt	Hosmer, William	WIA 09/17
G	Pvt	Hoyt, George W.	KIA 09/17
G	Pvt	McClellan, Charles H.	MWIA 09/17
G	Pvt	Munson, Enos B.	WIA 09/17
G	Pvt	O'Neal, John	MWIA 09/17
G	Pvt	Palmer, George H.	WIA 09/17
G	Pvt	Smith, William S.	KIA 09/17
G	Pvt	Spencer, Austin R.	WIA 09/17
G	Pvt	Sweet, Sherman	WIA 09/17
G	Pvt	Torrance, Horace Seymour	MIA (r) 09/17
G	Capt	Turrill, James Henry	KIA 09/17
H	Pvt	Blanchard, William H.	WIA 09/17
H	Pvt	Brooks, James	WIA/POW 09/17
H	Capt	Curtiss, Sylvanus Wright	WIA 09/17
H	Corp	Cushing, Alvin D.	KIA 09/17
H	Pvt	Dudley, Levi L.	WIA 09/17
H	Pvt	Farnham, Newell M.	KIA 09/17
H	Pvt	Flint, Frank	WIA 09/17
H	Pvt	Fowler, Henry C.	WIA 09/17
H	Pvt	Gunderman, Abram N.	WIA 09/17
H	Corp	Herring, Henry	WIA 09/17
H	Pvt	Hicks, Cyrus	WIA 09/17
H	Corp	Hutton, Philo M.	WIA 09/17
H	Pvt	Kimball, John	WIA 09/17
H	Pvt	May, Nicholas	WIA 09/17
H	Pvt	McPherson, Charles	WIA 09/17
H	Pvt	Rea, Ralph H.
H	Pvt	Smith, William H.	WIA 09/17
H	Sgt	Stanley, Albert J.	WIA 09/17
H	Corp	Stoddard, William O.	WIA 09/17
I	Pvt	Agan, Hiram	WIA 09/17
I	Pvt	Beckwith, Leroy	WIA 09/17
I	Pvt	Bell, William	WIA 09/17
I	Pvt	Brimmer, Albert E.	MWIA 09/17
I	Pvt	Cole, Stephen	KIA 09/17
I	Pvt	Flynn, John	WIA 09/17
I	Corp	Forbes, Andrew J.	KIA 09/17
I	Lt	Hodgman, Samuel Chase	WIA 09/17
I	Pvt	Homan, Phendlon B.	WIA 09/17
I	Pvt	Howe, John A.	KIA 09/17
I	Pvt	Huson, David R.	AWOL 10/01
I	Pvt	Lewis, Daniel S.	MWIA 09/17
I	Pvt	McDonald, James E.	WIA 09/17
I	Pvt	Norton, James	KIA 09/17
I	Pvt	Pangburn, Nathaniel S.	WIA 09/17
I	Capt	Phetteplace, Elhanan C.	WIA 09/17
I	Sgt	Porter, Orlando F.	WIA 09/17
I	Pvt	Sackett, Martin VanBuren	WIA 09/17
I	Pvt	Spaulding, Samuel P.	WIA 09/17
I	Sgt	Travis, George W.	MWIA 09/17
I	Pvt	Travis, James M.	MWIA 09/17
I	Pvt	White, Philo T.	WIA 09/17
I	Corp	Whitney, Cyrus W.	WIA 09/17
K	Pvt	Benham, Tower Stetson	WIA 09/17
K	Corp	Bixby, Cornelius	KIA 09/17
K	Pvt	Brink, George	WIA 09/17
K	Pvt	Brock, Francis	WIA 09/17
K	Pvt	Burns, WIlliam H.	KIA 09/17
K	Pvt	Denny, John B.	WIA 09/17
K	Lt	Eberhard, John P.	KIA 09/17
K	Pvt	Gates, Lorenzo	MWIA 09/17
K	Pvt	Griffin, John	WIA 09/17
K	Pvt	Hill, Charles L.	MWIA 09/17
K	Corp	Holmes, Charles O.	WIA 09/17
K	Pvt	Hooker, John A.	WIA 09/17
K	Corp	Pomeroy, Joseph Watson	Died (d) 11/00
K	Corp	Reynolds, James H.	WIA 09/17
K	Corp	Williams, Giles Sholes	KIA 09/17
K	Capt	Zacharias, Allen Howard	MWIA 09/17
F&S	LCol	Baxter, Henry	WIA 09/17
F&S	Surg	Chaddock, Gilbert
F&S	Sgt	Churchill, William A.	KIA 09/17
F&S	Col	Hall, Norman Jonathan

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