The Civil War in the East

24th Michigan Infantry Regiment

 

The 24th Michigan Infantry Regiment lost 12 officers and 177 enlisted men killed and mortally wounded and 3 officers and 136 enlisted men to disease during the Civil War.

 

It is honored by a monument at Gettysburg.

Monument to the 24th Michigan Infantry Regiment on the Civil War battlefield of Gettysburg

1862

August 15

Organized at Detroit, Mich., and mustered in

August 29

Moved to Washington, D.C.; Attached to Defences of Washington, D.C.

October

Attached to 1st Brigade, 1st Division, 1st Army Corps, Army of the Potomac

October 1

Moved to Frederick, Md.

October 6

To Sharpsburg, Md.

October 20-
November 6

To Warrenton, Va.

November

Attached to 4th Brigade, 1st Division, 1st Army Corps

November 25-
December 6

Guard Richmond, Fredericksburg & Aquia Creek Railroad

December 6-11

Advance to Falmouth

December 12-15

Battle of Fredericksburg

1863

January 20-24

"Mud March"

April 22-23

At Belle Plain until April. Expedition to Port Royal and Port Conway

April 27-May 6

Chancellorsville Campaign

April 29-May 2

Operations at Pollock's Mill Creek

April 29-30

Fitzhugh's Crossing

May 2-5

Battle of Chancellorsville

May 20-26

Operations on Northern Neck

June

Attached to 1st Brigade, 1st Division, 1st Army Corps

June 11-July 24

Gettysburg Campaign

July 1-3

Battle of Gettysburg

The Regiment was commanded by Colonel Henry A. Morrow until he was wounded on July 1st. Capt. Albert M. Edwards then took command.

 

From the monument: "July 1st 1863. Arriving upon the field to the south of these woods in the forenoon of July 1st, this regiment with others of the brigade (2nd and 7th Wisconsin and 19th Indiana) charged across the stream in front (Willoughby's Run) to the crest beyond. Assisting in the capture of a large portion of Archer's Tennessee Brigade, it was then withdrawn to this position where it fought until the time the line was outflanked and forced back."

 

"Position July 2nd and 3rd on Culp's Hill. "

 

"Went into action with 496 officers and men. Killed and mortally wounded, 89; Otherwise wounded, 218; Captured, 56; Total casualties, 363. Five Color Bearers were killed and all the Color Guard were killed or wounded."

 

See Colonel Morrow's Official Report of the battle of Gettysburg.

July 5-24

Pursuit of Lee to Manassas Gap, Va.

October 9-22

Duty on line of the Rappahannock and Rapidan until October. Bristoe Campaign

October 19

Haymarket

November 7-8

Advance to line of the Rappahannock

November 26-
December 2

Mine Run Campaign

1864

February 6-7

Demonstration on the Rapidan

March

Attached to 1st Brigade, 4th Division, 5th Army Corps

May 4-June 15

Campaign from the Rapidan to the James River

May 5-7

Battles of the Wilderness

May 8-12

Spottsylvania

May 8

Laurel Hill

May 12-21

Spottsylvania Court House

May 12

Assault on the Salient

May 23-26

North Anna River

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

Attached to 3rd Brigade, 3rd Division, 5th Army Corps

August 18-21

Weldon Railroad

September

Attached to 1st Brigade, 3rd Division, 5th Army Corps

October 27-28

Boydton Plank Road, Hatcher's Run

December 7-12

Warren's Raid on Weldon Railroad

1865

February

Springfield, Ill., Northern Department

February 5-7

Dabney's Mills

February 11

Ordered to Baltimore, Md., for special duty

February 15

Moved to Springfield, Ill., and assigned to garrison and guard duty there at Draft Rendezvous; Regiment selected as escort at funeral of President Lincoln.

June 30

Mustered out