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 |
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