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Twentieth Michigan Infantry.
Christ's Brigade —
Willcox's Division--Ninth Corps.
| companies. | killed and died of wounds. | died of disease, accidents, in Prison, &c. | Total Enrollment. |
| Officers. | Men. | Total. | Officers. | Men. | Total. |
| Field and Staff | 3 | 1 | 4 | 1 | | 1 | 15 |
| Company | A | 2 | 8 | 10 | | 16 | 16 | 101 |
| | B | | 8 | 8 | | 16 | 16 | 104 |
| | C | 1 | 9 | 10 | 1 | 25 | 26 | 114 |
| | D | 3 | 16 | 19 | | 14 | 14 | 123 |
| | E | 1 | 15 | 16 | | 14 | 14 | 121 |
| | F | | 13 | 13 | 1 | 20 | 21 | 109 |
| | G | | 12 | 12 | | 15 | 15 | 101 |
| | H | 2 | 8 | 10 | | 21 | 21 | 103 |
| | I | 1 | 9 | 10 | | 17 | 17 | 101 |
| | K | | 12 | 12 | | 17 | 17 | 122 |
| Totals | 13 | 111 | 124 | 3 | 175 | 178 | 1,114 |
124 killed == 11.1 per cent.
Total of killed and wounded, 406; died in Confederate prisons (previously included), 28.
| battles. | K. & M. W. | battles. | K. & M. W. |
| John Morgan's Raid, Ky. | 7 | Bethesda Church, Va. | 11 |
| Blue Springs, Tenn. | 1 | Cold Harbor, Va. | 1 |
| Campbell's Station, Tenn. | 7 | Petersburg Assault, Va. (1864） | 17 |
| Siege of Knoxville, Tenn. | 7 | Petersburg Mine, Va. | 8 |
| Wilderness, Va. | 2 | Petersburg Trenches, Va. | 11 |
| Spotsylvania, Va. | 43 | Peeble's Farm, Va. | 6 |
| North Anna, Va. | 2 | Fort Stedman, Va. | 1 |
Present, also, at
Fredericksburg, Va.;
Vicksburg, Miss.;
Jackson, Miss.; Lenoir Station, Tenn.; Strawberry Plains, Tenn.;
Ny River, Va.; Weldon Railroad, Va.;
Hatcher's Run, Va.; Fall of
Petersburg.
notes,--Recruited in the Third Congressional District.
It left
Jackson, September 1, 1862, and after a short stay at
Alexandria, Va., joined
McClellan's Army at
Sharpsburg, Md., a few days after the
battle of Antietam.
It was placed in the Ninth Corps, with which it marched to
Fredericksburg, where it was under fire, with a slight loss in wounded men. It was then in the First Brigade (
Poe's), First Division (
Burns's). The regiment accompanied the Ninth Corps to
Kentucky, and on May 10th, 1863, had a brisk fight at Horse Shoe Bend,
Ky., on the
Cumberland River, where it was attacked by
General John Morgan, who was then making his famous raid.
The regiment lost 5 killed, 19 wounded, and 5 missing. Its gallant defence, after being summoned to surrender by a vastly superior force, made this fight a notable one among the minor actions of the war. After participating in the
Vicksburg campaign, and then in the fighting in
East Tennessee, during which
Lieutenant-Colonel W. H. Smith, its commanding officer, was killed in the affair at
Campbell's Station, it returned to
Virginia where it took a prominent part in all the battles of the Ninth Corps in 1864-5.
It entered the
Wilderness campaign in the Second Brigade, Third Division (
Willcox's, afterwards the First Division), and at
Spotsylvania, May 12th, was engaged in the hardest fighting of its whole experience.
It lost that day, 17 killed, 108 wounded, and 19 missing; total, 144.
On June 18, 1864, it participated in the assault of the Ninth Corps at
Petersburg, losing half its men,
Major George C. Barnes falling mortally wounded.
After this battle the regiment numbered only 106 muskets.
