The 6th Michigan Heavy Artillery Regiment was an artillery regiment that served in the Union Army during the American Civil War.
Service The 6th Michigan Heavy Artillery was redesignated from the 6th Michigan Volunteer Infantry Regiment at Port Hudson, Louisiana, as a reward for its performance at the Siege of Port Hudson.
The regiment was mustered out on August 20, 1865.
Total strength and casualties The regiment suffered 2 officers and 76 enlisted men who were killed in action or mortally 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 Frederick W. Cortenius
Thomas S. Clark Captain S. F. Craig
See also List of Michigan Civil War Units Michigan in the American Civil War
Notes
References The Civil War Archive