2nd_Michigan_Volunteer_Infantry_Regiment

2nd Michigan Infantry Regiment

2nd Michigan Infantry Regiment

Military unit

The 2nd Michigan Infantry Regiment was an infantry regiment that served in the Union Army during the American Civil War.

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2nd Lieutenant William Leander Burlingame, 2nd Michigan Infantry

Service

The 2nd Michigan Infantry was organized by Francis William Kellogg and others at Fort Wayne in Detroit, Michigan. It mustered into Federal service for a three-year enlistment on May 25, 1861. Another key early supporter and recruiter was future general Israel B. Richardson.

The regiment included Sarah Emma Edmonds (aka "Franklin Thompson") who had enlisted in Company F disguised as a man. Anna Etheridge served as the regimental vivandiere.

The regiment was mustered out on August 1, 1865, at Detroit.

Total strength and casualties

The regiment suffered 11 officers and 214 enlisted men who were killed in action or mortally wounded and 4 officers and 143 enlisted men who died of disease, for a total of 372 fatalities.[1]

Commanders

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Notes

  1. [1]
    http://www.civilwararchive.com/Unreghst/unmiinf1.htm The Civil War Archive website after Dyer, Frederick Henry. A Compendium of the War of the Rebellion. 3 vols. New York: Thomas Yoseloff, 1959.

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