Our country calls! We join this league. And pledge ourselves with earnest zeal With loyal hearts and lifted hands, To firmly stand, come woe or weal. ” The 20th was raised in the third congressional district, composed of the counties of Washtenaw, Jackson, Calhoun, Eaton, and Ingham. Its camp was at Jackson, and the commandant [...]
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B. Captain, Byron M. Cutcheon, Ypsilanti. First Lieutenant, Charles T. Allen, Sharon. Second Lieutenant, Augustus Van Cleve, Ypsilanti. C. Captain, George C. Barnes, Battle Creek. First Lieutenant, Joseph H. Weeks, Battle Creek. Second Lieutenant, Charles J. Brown, Battle Creek. D. Captain, Claudius B. Grant, Ann Arbor. First Lieutenant, Roswell P. Carpenter, Ann Arbor. Second Lieutenant, [...]
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The regiment left its rendezvous at Jackson for Washington September lst, 1862, in command of Colonel Williams, with 1,012 officers and men on the rolls, and on its arrival at Washington was sent into camp at Fort Lyon, near Alexandria, with orders to report to General Burnside, commanding the 9th army corps of the Potomac. [...]
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The regiment with its division commenced to advance from Waterford towards Culpepper on November 2d, and on the 14th the enemy was met at White Sulphur Springs, where a slight skirmish occurred, but in which the regiment did not participate. On the 15th it picketed Thompson’s Ford, near the Spring, and in the night made [...]
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It was favorably located at that point, and the health and spirits of the men rapidly improved. Leaving Newport News March 19th with the 9th corps, it proceeded via Baltimore, Parkersburg, and Cincinnati to Kentucky. On the 9th of May a detachment of 100 men in command of Captain Wiltsie, having been dispatched to break [...]
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then Major of the regiment, says: “We had fallen back from Monticello to the Cumberland river, near Jamestown, at a point where the river makes a grand curve, known as Horse Shoe Bend. On Friday night, the 8th of May, we had sent out a hundred picked men under Captain W. D. Wiltsie, in search [...]
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This little force was distributed over a wide front to as good advantage as possible. Shortly after 8 o’clock A. M. the enemy attacked and drove in our outposts, and assaulted our main line. Our position was excellent. The enemy advanced with great confidence on front and flank, but was quickly and decisively repulsed with [...]
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We soon received another hundred men and re-crossed the river in the presence of a vastly superior force without further loss. “I consider this one of the most notable minor actions of the war. We see a handful of men without supports, and retreat cut off by a stream 150 yards wide, deep and rapid, [...]
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Companies B and E held the continuation of the fence to the left, and the extreme left was held by a battalion of the 12th Kentucky, cavalry companies dismounted. Companies I and G were in reserve at the foot of the hill in rear of the center. At about 4 P. M. one piece of [...]
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We crossed the river without any confusion or accident, completing the same at about 7 o’clock, and bivouacked for the night on a bluff commanding the ferry. I have to report with regret the loss of several excellent officers during the skirmish of Saturday and the fight of Sunday, consisting of Lieutenant William M. Green, [...]
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