United States Regiments & Batteries > Michigan


The 20th Michigan Volunteer Infantry Regiment lost 13 officers and 111 enlisted men killed or mortally wounded and 3 officers and 175 enlisted men to disease during the Civil War.

1862
August 15-19 Organized at Jackson, Michigan
September 1 Left State for Washington, D.C.
September 18-22 March to Leesburg, Va. and to Sharpsburg, Md. Attached to 1st Brigade, 1st Division, 9th Army Corps, Army of the Potomac
September 22 – October 6 Duty at Sharpsburg, Md.
October 7 – 14 At Pleasant Valley, Md.
October 15 – 30 At Nolen’s Ford
November 2-15 Advance on Culpeper
November 16-19 To Falmouth, Va.
December 12-15
Battle of Fredericksburg
1863
January 20-24 “Mud March”
January 25 – February 19 At Falmouth
February 19 Moved to Newport News, Va.,
March 19-23 To Kentucky
April, 1863 1st Brigade, 1st Division, 9th Army Corps, Army of the Ohio
April – June Duty at various points in Kentucky
April 26-May 12 Expedition to Monticello and operations in Southeast Kentucky
May 9 Skirmish Alcorn’s Distillery near Monticello (Detachment)
May 10 Horse Shoe Bend, Ky.
June 3-14 Moved to Vicksburg, Miss., attached to 3rd Brigade, 1st Division, 9th Army Corps, Army of the Tennessee
June 14-July 4 Siege of Vicksburg
July 4-10 Advance on Jacksoon, 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, attached to 3rd Brigade, 1st Division, 9th Army Corps Army of the Ohio
August 4-30 Moved to Covington, Ky., then to Crab Orchard, Ky.
September 10-26 March to Knoxville, Tenn.
October 10 Action at Blue Springs
October 11 – November 14 Duty at Lenoir Station
November 4-December 24 Knoxville Campaign
November 16 Campbell’s Station
November 17-December 5 Siege of Knoxville
November 29 Repulse of Longstreet’s assault on Fort Saunders
December 5-18 Pursuit of Longstreet to Bean’s Station
1864
January 1st Brigade, 1st Division, 9th Army Corps, Army Ohio
January 21-22 Strawberry Plains
January 24-March 2 Advance to Morristown
March 14 Reconnaissance to Chucky River
March 23-30 Moved from Knoxville to Nicholasville, Ky. then to Annapolis, Md.
April 2nd 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
May 8-21
Battle of Spotsylvania Court House
May 10 Ny River
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.
Battle of Cold Harbor
June 1-3 Bethesda Church
June 16-18 First Assault on Petersburg
June 16 Siege of Petersburg
July 30 Mine Explosion, Petersburg
August 18-21 Weldon Railroad
September Attached to the 2nd 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
1865
March 25 Fort Stedman
March 28-April 9 Appomattox Campaign
April 2 Assault on and capture of Petersburg
April 3 Occupation of Petersburg
April 3-9 Pursuit of Lee
April 20-24 Moved to Alexandria
May 23 Grand Review
May 30 Mustered out