e troop, then, the raising of which has been thus briefly sketched,
was ready on Tuesday, September 16, 1862, to begin its career as a
military unit in the great army of union volunteers. It is known in the
history of the civil war as Troop E, Sixth Michigan cavalry
(volunteers). It was originally constituted as follows:

James H. Kidd, captain; Edward L. Craw, first lieutenant; Franklin P.
Nichols, second lieutenant; Ambrose L. Soule, supernumerary second
lieutenant.

Angelo E. Tower, first sergeant; James L. Manning, quartermaster
sergeant; Amos T. Ayers, commissary sergeant; William H. Robinson,
William Willett, Schuyler C. Triphagen, Marvin E. Avery, Solon H.
Finney, sergeants.

Amos W. Stevens, Jacob O. Probasco, Isaac R. Hart, Benjamin B.
Tucker, George I. Henry, David Welch, Marvin A. Filkins, James W.
Brown, corporals.

Simon E. Allen, William Almy, Eber Blanchard, Heman S. Brown, Shuman
Belding, Lester A. Berry, George Bennett, George Brown, John
Cryderman, Edward H. Cook, William B. Clark, James H. Corwin, Eugene
C. Croff, William W. Croff, Randall S. Compton, Manley Conkrite,
William H. Compton, Seth Carey, Marion Case, Amaron Decker, Daniel
Draper, Rinehart Dikeman, Thomas Dickinson, Orrin W. Daniels,
Matthias Easter, Francis N. Friend, Ira Green, James Gray, George I.
Goodale, Eli Halladay, Luther Hart, Elias Hogle, George E. Halladay,
Robert Hempstead, Edmond R. Hallock, Henry M. Harrison, Warren
Hopkins, John J. Hammel, Miles E. Hutchinson, Luther Johnson,
Searight C. Koutz, Louis Kepfort, Archibald Lamberton, Martin Lerg,
David Minthorn, Solomon Mangus, Andrew J. Miller, Jedediah D. Osborn,
Timothy J. Mosher, Gershom W. Mattoon, Moses C. Nestell, George W.
Marchant, Edwin Olds, Walter E. Pratt, Albert M. Parker, George W.
Rall, Frederick Smith, Jesse Stewart, Josiah R. Stevens, David S.
Starks, Orlando V.R. Showerman, David Stowell, James O. Sliter,
Jonathan C. Smith, Meverick Smith, Samuel J. Smith, Josiah Thompson,
William Toynton, John Tunks, Mortimer Trim, Albert Truax, Oliver L.
VanTassel, Byron A. Vosburg, John VanWagoner, Sidney VanWagoner,
Erastus J. Wall, Charles Wyman, Harvey C. Wilder, Israel Wall, Lewis
H. Yeoman.[2]

The troop that thus started on its career was a typical organization for
that time--that is it had the characteristics common to the volunteers
of the early period of the civil war