" Let its stained and tattered mass,
Tell the story of the terror and the glory,
Of the battle of the Allatoona Pass."

 On the morning of the 5th the Pass was attacked by Gen. French's
rebel Division, numbering six thousand men. The 7th, armed
with the Henry rifle, (or 16 shooter.) did gallant and fearfull
work-successfully repelling four seperate charges made by the
desperate and hungry enemy on the line occupied by them-its 
torn and bleeding ranks told at what a fearfull cost. Its
colors, under which fell many a gallant bearer that day,
were never lowered.

 In this battle October 5th 1864, thirty eight men were
killed and sixty-seven wounded. The enemy lost two thousand
two hundred killed and wounded, and, not able to stand against
this gallant little band of defenders in the Pass, they fled, 
leaving this number on the field. The Seventh, together with
all those who assisted in that gallant defense and glorious
victory, won never fading laurels, and was highly complimented,
General Sherman, who said; " For the numbers engaged, they
stood opon the bloodiest battle field ever known upon the
American continent."

Roster of Company "H"

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