20th Michigan Volunteer Infantry Regiment

20th Michigan Volunteer Infantry Regiment

Infobox Military Unit
unit_name= 20th Regiment Michigan Volunteer Infantry


caption=Michigan state flag
dates= August 15, 1862 to May 30, 1865
country= United States
allegiance= Union
branch= Infantry
equipment=
battles= Battle of Fredericksburg
Siege of Vicksburg
Siege of Knoxville
Battle of the Wilderness
Battle of Spotsylvania Court House
Siege of Petersburg
Battle of the Crater
Appomattox Campaign

The 20th Regiment Michigan Volunteer Infantry was an infantry regiment that served in the Union Army during the American Civil War.

ervice

The 20th Michigan Infantry was organized at Jackson, Michigan between August 15 and August 19, 1862.

The regiment was mustered out of service on May 30, 1865.

Total strength and casualties

The regiment suffered 13 officers and 111 enlistedmen who were killed in action or mortally wounded and 3 officers and 175 enlisted men who died of disease, for a total of 302 fatalities. [http://www.civilwararchive.com/Unreghst/unmiinf2.htm#20th The Civil War Archive website after Dyer, Frederick Henry. A Compendium of the War of the Rebellion. 3 vols. New York: Thomas Yoseloff, 1959.]

Commanders

*Colonel

ee also

*List of Michigan Civil War Units
*Michigan in the American Civil War

Notes

References

* [http://www.civilwararchive.com/unionmi.htm The Civil War Archive]


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