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9th Michigan Battery
The Ninth Michigan Battery lost 5 enlisted men killed and mortally wounded and 27 enlisted men by disease during the Civil War.
It is honored by a monument at Gettysburg.
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August 29 |
Organized at Detroit, Mich., and mustered in |
December 4-11 |
Moved to Washington, D.C.; Attached to Camp Berry, Defenses of Washington, |
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March, |
Artillery, Stahel's Cavalry Division, 22nd Army Corps |
June 16 |
To Triplett's Bridge |
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Action at Triplett's Corps, Dept. of Washington |
June 24 |
Attached to 1st Brigade, Horse Artillery, Army of the Potomac; At Fairfax Court House, Va. |
June 24-July 2 |
March to Gettysburg, Pa. |
July 2-3 |
Battle of Gettysburg.
The Battery was commanded by Captain Jabez J. Daniels. It brought to the field 119 men serving 6 Ordnance Rifles.
From the monument at Gettysburg: "This monument marks the position held by the Ninth Michigan Battery from 12:30 p.m. July 3rd, until 7 a.m. the following morning."
"322 rounds of shot, shell and canister expended. Casualties one man killed and four wounded. Battery sustained the loss of 23 horses killed in the engagement." |
July 8-24 |
March to Warrenton, Va., thence to Culpeper Court House |
August |
Attached to 2nd Brigade, Horse Artillery, Army of the Potomac |
October 27-
November 12 |
Moved to Nashville, Tenn. |
November, |
Attached to Artillery Brigade, 11th Army Corps, Army of the Cumberland |
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July 4 |
Mustered out in Detroit |
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