The Civil War in the East

26th Michigan Infantry Regiment

The 26th lost 3 officers and 115 enlisted men killed and mortally wounded and 3 officers and 159 enlisted men by disease, a total of 280.

 

Timetable of the 26th Michigan Infantry Regiment

September 10 to
December 12, 1862

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.

January - April 1863

Provost duty at Alexandria, Va.,

February

Slough's Brigade, Garrison of Alexandria, Va., 22nd Army Corps

April

Ferry's 1st Brigade, Corcoran's 1st Division, 7th Army Corps, Dept. of Virginia

April 20

Ordered to Suffolk, Va.

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 to October 13

Duty there 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

February 6-7, 1864

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

June, 1864, to 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

February 5-7, 1865

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, 1865

Mustered out