The Civil War in the East

20th Michigan Infantry Regiment

Regiment lost 13 officers and 111 enlisted men killed and mortally wounded and 3 officers and 175 enlisted men by disease, totalling 302.

 

Timeline of the 20th Michigan Infantry Regiment

August 15-19, 1862

Organized at Jackson, Mich

September 1

Left State for Washington, D.C.

September 18-22

March to Leesburg, Va. and to Sharpsburg, Md. and attached to 1st Brigade, 1st Division, 9th Army Corps, Army of the Potomac

September 22 to October 6

Duty at Sharpsburg, Md.

October 7 - 14

At Pleasant Valley, Md.

October 15 - 30

At Nolen's Ford

November 2-15

Advance on Culpeper

November 16-19

To Falmouth, Va.

December 12-15

Battle of Fredericksburg, Va.

January 20-24, 1863

"Mud March"

January 25 - February 19

At Falmouth

February 19

Moved to Newport News, Va.,

March 19-23

To Kentucky

April, 1863

1st Brigade, 1st Division, 9th Army Corps, Army of the Ohio

April - June

Duty at various points in Kentucky

April 26-May 12

Expedition to Monticello and operations in Southeast Kentucky

May 9

Skirmish Alcorn's Distillery near Monticello (Detachment)

May 10

Horse Shoe Bend, Ky.

June 3-14

Moved to Vicksburg, Miss., attached to 3rd Brigade, 1st Division, 9th Army Corps, Army of the Tennessee

June 14-July 4

Siege of Vicksburg

July 4-10

Advance on Jacksoon, Miss.

July 10-17

Siege of Jackson

July 18-22

Destruction of Mississippi Central Railroad at Madison Station

July 23 - August 4

Camp at Milldale, attached to 3rd Brigade, 1st Division, 9th Army Corps Army of the Ohio

August 4-30

Moved to Covington, Ky., then to Crab Orchard, Ky.

September 10-26

March to Knoxville, Tenn.

October 10

Action at Blue Springs

October 11 - November 14

Duty at Lenoir Station

November 4-December 24

Knoxville Campaign

November 16

Campbell's Station

November 17-December 5

Siege of Knoxville

November 29

Repulse of Longstreet's assault on Fort Saunders

December 5-18

Pursuit of Longstreet to Bean's Station

January, 1864

1st Brigade, 1st Division, 9th Army Corps, Army Ohio

January 21-22

Strawberry Plains

January 24-March 2

Advance to Morristown

March 14

Reconnaissance to Chucky River

March 23-30

Moved from Knoxville to Nicholasville, Ky. then to Annapolis, Md.

April

2nd Brigade, 3rd Division, 9th Army Corps, Army of the Potomac

May 4-June 15

Campaign from the Rapidan to the James River

May 5-7

Battles of the Wilderness

May 8-12

Spottsylvania

May 10

Ny River

May 12-21

Spottsylvania Court House

May 12

Assault on the Salient

May 23-26

North Anna River

May 23-24

Ox Ford

May 26-28

On line of the Pamunkey

May 28-31

Totopotomoy

June 1-12.

Cold Harbor

June 1-3

Bethesda Church

June 16-18

Before Petersburg

June 16

Siege of Petersburg

July 30

Mine Explosion, Petersburg

August 18-21

Weldon Railroad

September

2nd Brigade, 1st Division, 9th Army Corps

September 29-October 2

Poplar Springs Church

October 8

Reconnoissance on Vaughan and Squirrel Level Roads

October 27-28

Boydton Plank Road, Hatcher's Run

March 25, 1865

Fort Stedman, Petersburg

March 28-April 9

Appomattox Campaign

April 2

Assault on and capture of Petersburg

April 3

Occupation of Petersburg

April 3-9

Pursuit of Lee

April 20-24

Moved to Alexandria

May 23

Grand Review

May 30, 1865

Mustered out