The 8th Michigan Infantry Regiment lost 11 officers and 212 enlisted men killed or mortally wounded and 3 officers and 223 enlisted men to disease during the Civil War.
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Regiment organized at Grand Rapids and at Fort Wayne, Detroit, Mich. |
September 23 |
Mustered in under Colonel William Fenton and Lieutrenant Colonel Frank Graves |
September 27 |
Left State for Washington, D.C. |
September 28 |
Camp at Meridian Hill |
October 9 |
Moved to Annapolis, Md. and attached to Stevens' 2nd Brigade, Sherman's South Carolina Expeditionary Corps |
October 19 |
Sherman's Expedition to Port Royal, S. C. |
November 7 |
Capture of Forts Walker and Beauregard, Port Royal Harbor |
November 8 |
Hilton Head, S.C. |
December 7 |
Occupation of Beaufort, S.C. |
December 17 |
Chisholm Island |
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January 1 |
Port Royal Ferry, Coosaw River |
January-April |
Guard and picket duty at Beaufort |
April |
Attached to 1st Brigade, 2nd Division, Dept. of the South |
February 23-26 |
Reconnoissance up Bull River (Detachment) |
April 1-12 |
Duty at Battery Halleck, Tybee Island, during siege of Fort Pulaski |
April 10-11 |
Bombardment and capture of Fort Pulaski |
April 16 |
Reconnoissance to Wilmington and Whitmarsh Islands and action |
April-June |
Duty on Port Royal Island |
May 29 |
Pocotaligo (1 Co.) |
June 1-28 |
Operations on James Island, S.C. |
June 16 |
Battle of Secessionville |
June 28-July 7 |
Evacuation of James Island |
July 12-17 |
Moved from Hilton Head, S.C., to Newport News, Va. and attached to 1st Brigade, 1st Division, 9th Army Corps, Army of the Potomac |
August 4-6 |
To Fredericksburg, Va. |
August 7-27 |
Operations on the Rapidan and Rappahannock Rivers |
August 27-
September 2 |
Pope's Campaign in Northern Virginia |
August 29 |
Battles of Groveton |
August 30 |
Bull Run |
September 1 |
Chantilly |
September 6-22 |
Maryland Campaign. Attached to 2nd Brigade, 1st Division, 9th Army Corps |
September 14 |
Battle of South Mountain |
September 16-17 |
Battle of Antietam
Commanded by Lieutenant Colonel Graves |
September 27 |
Lieutenant Colonel Graves resigns |
October 11-November 18 |
March up the Potomac to Leesburg, Va. to Falmouth, Va. |
December |
Attached to 1st Brigade, 1st Division, 9th Army Corps, Army of the Potomac |
December 12-15 |
Battle of Fredericksburg, Va. |
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January 20-24 |
"Mud March" |
February 13 |
Moved to Newport News, Va. |
March 19-23 |
Moved to Kentucky and duty at various points in that State attached to the Army of the Ohio |
May 1 |
Frank Graves mustered as colonel |
June 7-14 |
Moved to Vicksburg, Miss. and attached to 1st Brigade, 1st Division, 9th Army Corps, Army of the Tennessee |
June 14-July 4 |
Siege of Vicksburg |
July 4-10 |
Advance on Jackson, 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 |
August 4-18 |
Moved to Covington, Ky., thence to Crab Orchard, Ky. attached to 1st Brigade, 1st Division, 9th Army Corps, Army of the Ohio |
September 10-26 |
Burnside's Campaign in East Tennessee. March to Knoxville, Tenn. |
October 10 |
Action at Blue Springs |
November 4 |
Knoxville Campaign |
November 15 |
Lenoir |
November 16 |
Campbell's Station |
November 17-December 5 |
Siege of Knoxville |
December |
Camp at Blain's Cross Roads |
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January 8-25 |
Veterans marched over Cumberland Mountains to Nicholasville, Ky., over 200 miles, in midwinter, and reached Detroit |
March 9 |
Ordered to Annapolis, Md. and duty there attached to 1st 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 |
Battle of the Wilderness
Colonel Graves killed on May 6 |
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 16-19 |
Before Petersburg |
June 16 |
Siege of Petersburg |
July 30 |
Mine Explosion, Petersburg |
August 18-21 |
Weldon Railroad |
September |
Attached to 1st 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 |
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March 25 |
Fort Stedman, Petersburg |
April 2 |
Assault on and fall of Petersburg |
April 2 |
Fort Mahone |
April 3 |
Occupation of Petersburg |
April 4-20 |
Guard Southside Railroad assigned to 2nd Brigade, 1st Division, 9th Army Corps |
April 20-23 |
Moved to Alexandria |
May 23 |
Grand Review |
June-July |
Guard and patrol duty at Washington, D.C. |
July 30 |
Mustered out |
