The 20th Michigan Infantry Regiment was an
infantry regiment that served in the
Union Army during the
American Civil War.
Service
The 20th Michigan Infantry was organized at
Jackson, Michigan
Jackson is the only city and county seat of Jackson County in the U.S. state of Michigan. As of the 2010 census, the city population was 33,534, down from 36,316 at the 2000 census. Located along Interstate 94 and U.S. Route 127, it is approxi ...
, between August 15 and August 19, 1862.
The regiment was mustered out of service on May 30, 1865.
The regiment is mentioned briefly in Chapter IX of MacKinlay Kantor's Pulitzer Prize-winning novel "Andersonville" (1955).
Total strength and casualties
The regiment lost 13 officers and 111 enlisted men killed in action or mortally wounded, and a further 3 officers and 175 enlisted men who died of disease, 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
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Colonel Adolphus Wesley Williams
See also
*
List of Michigan Civil War Units
*
Michigan in the American Civil War
References
External links
*
The Civil War Archive*http://www.bookemon.com/read-book/58241 Addison Smith Boyce Civil War Journal
Units and formations of the Union Army from Michigan
1865 disestablishments in Michigan
1862 establishments in Michigan
Military units and formations established in 1862
Military units and formations disestablished in 1865
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