The 16th Michigan lost 12 officers and 235 enlisted men killed and mortally wounded and 143 enlisted men to disease, a total of 390 out of an enrollment of 2,318 men. The regiment is honored by a monument at Gettysburg.
July to September, 1861 |
Organized at Plymouth and Detroit, Mich. |
September 8 |
Mustered in at Detroit |
September 16 |
Left State for Washington, D.C.; Attached to Butterfield's Brigade, Fitz John Porter's Division, Army of the Potomac and camp at Hall's Hill, Defences of Washington |
March, 1862 |
3rd Brigade, 1st Division, 3rd Army Corps, Army of the Potomac; Advance on Manassas, Va. |
March 10 |
Moved to the Virginia Peninsula |
March 22-24 |
Reconnoissance to Big Bethel |
March 30 |
Warwick Road |
April 5 |
Siege of Yorktown |
April 5-May 4 |
Reconnoissance up the Pamunkey |
May |
Attached to 3rd Brigade, 1st Division, 5th Army Corps, Army of the Potomac |
May 27 |
Battle of Hanover Court House |
May 27-29 |
Operations about Hanover Court House |
June 25-July 1 |
Seven days before Richmond |
June 26 |
Battles of Mechanicsville |
June 27 |
Gaines' Mill |
June 29 |
Savage Station |
June 30 |
Turkey Bridge or Malvern Cliff |
July 1 |
Malvern Hill |
July 2 |
Duty at Harrison's Landing |
August 16 |
Movement to Fortress Monroe, then to Centreville |
August 30 |
Battle of Bull Run |
September 6-22 |
Maryland Campaign |
September 16-17 |
Battle of Antietam |
September 19 |
Shepherdstown Ford |
September - October |
At Sharpsburg |
October 29- November 17 |
Movement to Falmouth, Va. |
December 12-15 |
Battle of Fredericksburg |
December 29-30 |
Expedition from Potomac Creek to Richards and Ellis Fords, Rappahannock River |
January 20-24, 1863 |
"Mud March" |
January - April |
At Falmouth |
April 27-May 6 |
Chancellorsville Campaign |
May 1-5 |
Battle of Chancellorsville |
June 17 |
Aldie |
June 21 |
Middleburg and Upperville |
July 1-3 |
Battle of Gettysburg
The Regiment was commanded at Gettysburg by Lieutenant Colonel Norval E. Welch.
From the monument, "Regiment held this position during the afternoon and night of July 2, 1863, and assisted in defeating the desperate attempts of the enemy to capture Little Round Top. Present for duty 17 officers, 339 men total 356. Casualties: 3 officers 20 men killed, 2 officers 32 men wounded, 3 men missing. Total 60." |
July 5-24 |
Pursuit of Lee to Manassas Gap, Va |
July - October |
Duty at Warrenton, Beverly Ford and Culpeper |
October 9-22 |
Bristoe Campaign |
November 7-8 |
Advance to line of the Rappahannock |
November 7 |
Rappahannock Station |
November 26-
December 2 |
Mine Run Campaign |
January 2 -
February 17, 1864 |
Veterans absent on furlough |
January - May |
At Bealeton Station |
May 4-June 15 |
Campaign from the Rapidan to the James River |
May 5-7 |
Battles of the Wilderness |
May 8 |
Laurel Hill |
May 8-12 |
Spottsylvania |
May 12-21 |
Spottsylvania Court House |
May 12 |
Assault on the Salient |
May 23-26 |
North Anna |
May 23 |
Jericho Mills |
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 begins |
August 18-21 |
Six Mile House, Weldon Railroad |
September 29-
October 2 |
Poplar Springs Church, Peeble's Farm |
October 27-28 |
Boydton Plank Road, Hatcher's Run |
December 7-12 |
Warren's Raid on Weldon Railroad |
February 5-7, 1865 |
Dabney's Mills, Hatcher's Run |
March 28-April 9 |
Appomattox Campaign |
March 29 |
Junction of Quaker and Boydton Roads and Lewis Farm near Gravelly Run |
March 30-31 |
White Oak Road |
April 1 |
Five Forks |
April 2 |
Fall of Petersburg |
April 3-9 |
Pursuit of Lee |
April 9 |
Appomattox Court House; Surrender of Lee and his army. |
May 3-12 |
March to Washington, D.C. |
May 23 |
Grand Review |
June 16-22 |
Moved to Louisville, Ky., then to Jeffersonville, Ind. |
July 8, 1865 |
Mustered out |
