NINTH REGIMENT INFANTRY. ” On trembling Freedom’s trial day, And loud as thunders in the sky, “Went up their herald’s warning cry, ‘ Let him who rends the Union die. ‘ ” The 9th Infantry was organized at Fort Wayne, near Detroit, under the following order: GENERAL ORDERS, NO. 74. MILITARY DEPARTMENT, MICHIGAN, Adtutant General’s [...]
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It was mustered into the service of the United States, October 15th, 1861, with a force of 913 officers and men on its rolls, and left for the field in Kentucky on the 25th of that month, being the first regiment from Michigan to enter upon active service in the western departments of the army. [...]
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G. Captain, George N. Chase, Detroit. First Lieutenant, Mortimer Mansfield, Coldwater. Second Lieutenant, William A. Hull, Coldwater. H. Captain, Andrew M. Adams, Detroit. First Lieutenant, Samuel A. Wiggins, Detroit. Second Lieutenant, Charles T. Fox, Lyons. I. Captain, William Jenney, Jr., Mt. Clemens. First Lieutenant, Blake W. Hornbeck, Detroit. Second Lieutenant, Alanson P. Dickinson, Romeo. K. [...]
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On the 17th companies E and G reached Elizabethtown from West Point, leaving I at that station. The entire regiment was concentrated at Elizabethtown on March 9th. On the 11th and 12th it marched to West Point in command of Lieutenant Colonel Parkhurst, Colonel Duffield being in command of the 23d brigade, Army of the [...]
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Following is the report of Colonel Duffield covering in detail the operations of his command: Inkster, Wayne County, Michigan, March 14, 1880. General, Agreeably to your request I enclose you herewith a copy of my report of the fight at Lebanon, May 5, 1862. Although the 9th Michigan Infantry took no part in that battle [...]
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Colonel Woolford, from Nashville, Colonel Lester had despatched that force in pursuit, together with the 3d battalion of the 7th Pennsylvania Cavalry, Major Givan. The 4th Kentucky Cavalry, Colonel Smith, having arrived with General Dumont and yourself from Shelbyville, and the 2d battalion of the 7th Pennsylvania Cavalry, Colonel Wyncoop, from Nashville, both these forces [...]
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The column was then put in motion, proceeding at the galop, drove in the pickets and charged into the town. The enemy was completely surprised and was only aware of our presence by the fire, of his pickets, posted less than a mile from the village. His main force was quartered at the college buildings [...]
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I directed Lieutenant Colonel Parkhurst to search the village and collect the wounded with the members of my own staff and escort who did not join in the pursuit. While so engaged several scattering shots were fired upon us from the windows of the adjoining houses, and a sudden and most unexpected volley poured in [...]
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to maintain a steady fire upon the windows, and when the enemy’s fire had been silenced to demand an unconditional surrender, and in case of refusal to fire the building. This was done and the enemy laid down his arms and surrendered. His force consisted of fifty privates, ten non-commissioned officers, four lieutenants, one captain, [...]
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