Civil War & Reconstruction
Civil War
Second Union Occupation
Colonel Norman J. Hall - 7th Michigan Infantry
Colonel Norman J. Hall - 7th Michigan Infantry
As no such tactic existed, the commanding general wondered aloud if any unit could make such an attack – a “forlorn hope” or sacrificed unit in Napoleonic-era parlance . Colonel Norman J. Hall, 7th Michigan Infantry, volunteered his regiment and brigade. The brigade, badly attrited in earlier battles and camps to less than 1,000 men, was committed.
