The 26th Michigan Infantry Regiment lost 3 officers and 115 enlisted men killed or mortally wounded and 3 officers and 159 enlisted men to disease during the Civil War.
1862 |
September 10 -
December 12 |
Organized at Jackson, Mich. |
December 12 |
Mustered in |
December 13 |
Left State for Washington, D.C.; Attached to District of Alexandria, Defences of Washington, D.C. |
1863 |
January - April |
Provost duty at Alexandria, Va., |
February |
Attached to Slough's Brigade, Garrison of Alexandria, Va., 22nd Army Corps |
April 20 |
Ordered to Suffolk, Va. and attached to Ferry's 1st Brigade, Corcoran's 1st Division, 7th Army Corps, Dept. of Virginia |
April 22-May 4 |
Siege of Suffolk, Va. |
May 4 |
Siege of Suffolk raised |
May 23 |
Windsor |
June 24-July 8 |
Dix's Peninsula Campaign |
July 1-7 |
Expedition to Bottom's Bridge |
July |
New York, Dept. of the East |
July 12 |
Ordered to New York City |
July 14 - October 13 |
Duty in New York City and at Fort Richmond, N.Y. Harbor |
October |
Ordered to join Army of the Potomac in the field. Attached to 1st Brigade, 1st Division, 2nd Army Corps, Army of the Potomac. |
November 7-8 |
Advance to line of the Rappahannock |
November 26-
December 2 |
Mine Run Campaign |
1864 |
February 6-7 |
Demonstration on the Rapidan |
May 4-June 15 |
Campaign from the Rapidan to the James River |
May 8 |
Battles of the Wilderness, Corbin's Bridge |
May 8-12 |
Spottsylvania |
May 10 |
Po River |
May 12-21 |
Spottsylvania Court House |
May 12 |
Assault on the Salient ("Bloody Angle") |
May 23-26 |
North Anna River |
May 26-28 |
On line of the Pamunkey |
May 28-31 |
Totopotomoy |
June 1-12 |
Cold Harbor |
June1864 -
June 1865 |
Co. "F" detached in Slough's Brigade, Defences of Washington, D.C., 22nd Army Corps |
June 16-18 |
Before Petersburg |
June 16 |
Siege of Petersburg begins |
June 22-23 |
Jerusalem Plank Road, Weldon Railroad |
July 27-29 |
Demonstration north of the James |
July 27-28 |
Deep Bottom |
August 13-20 |
Demonstration north of the James at Deep Bottom |
August 14-18 |
Strawberry Plains |
August 25 |
Ream's Station |
December 9-10 |
Reconnoissance to Hatcher's Run |
1865 |
February 5-7 |
Dabney's Mills, Hatcher's Run |
March 25 |
Watkin's House |
March 28-April 9 |
Appomattox Campaign |
March 29-30 |
On line of Hatcher's and Gravelly Runs |
March 31 |
Hatcher's Run (or Boydton Road) and White Oak Road |
April 2 |
Sutherland Station |
April 2 |
Fall of Petersburg |
April 3-9 |
Pursuit of Lee |
April 6 |
Sailor's Creek |
April 6 |
Flat Creek, near Amelia Springs |
April 7 |
High Bridge |
April 9 |
Appomattox Court House, surrender of Lee and his army. Regiment specially detailed to remain at Appomattox Court House until the paroling of Lee's army was accomplished. |
May 2-13 |
Moved to Washington, D.C. |
May 23 |
Grand Review |
June 4 |
Mustered out |
