7th Michigan Infantry Regiment

Among the ranks was future Brigadier General Henry Baxter, who was captain of C Company.

The 7th was assigned to the Army of the Potomac soon after it was formed and served in the 3rd Brigade, 2nd Division, 2nd Corps, for the duration of the war.

The 7th was one of the first regiments to cross the Rappahannock River on Dec. 11th, 1862 while under fire from Confederate sharpshooters hidden in the buildings of Fredericksburg, the first opposed riverine assault in American military history.

Sergeant Alonzo Smith of Company C received the Medal of Honor on December 1, 1864 for his actions at the Battle of Boydton Plank Road on October 27, 1864.

The regiment suffered 11 officers and 197 enlisted men who were killed in action or mortally wounded and 3 officers and 186 enlisted men who died of disease, for a total of 397 fatalities.

"Colonel," Union horse who survived 18 battles. Colonel was owned by Lieutenant N.J. Hall of the 4th U.S. Artillery and 7th Michigan Infantry Regiment. He was cared for by the Hillsdale County Soldiers and Sailors Reunion Association after Hall's death in 1878. From the Liljenquist Family Collection of Civil War Photographs, Prints and Photographs Division, Library of Congress