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Twenty-Fourth Michigan Infantry.
Iron Brigade —
Wadsworth's Division--First Corps.
Colonel Henry A. Morrow;
Bvt. Brig.-Gen.
| companies. | killed and died of wounds. | died of disease, accidents, in Prison, &c. | Total Enrollment. |
| Officers. | Men. | Total. | Officers. | Men. | Total. |
| Field and Staff | 1 | | 1 | | 1 | 1 | 15 |
| Company | A | | 13 | 13 | | 10 | 10 | 154 |
| | B | | 19 | 19 | 1 | 8 | 9 | 162 |
| | C | 2 | 15 | 17 | | 16 | 16 | 170 |
| | D | 1 | 18 | 19 | | 15 | 15 | 164 |
| | E | 2 | 12 | 14 | | 12 | 12 | 154 |
| | F | | 17 | 17 | 1 | 12 | 13 | 173 |
| | G | 2 | 26 | 28 | | 8 | 8 | 146 |
| | H | 1 | 16 | 17 | 1 | 13 | 14 | 155 |
| | I | | 19 | 19 | | 16 | 16 | 173 |
| | K | 3 | 22 | 25 | | 25 | 25 | 188 |
| Totals | 12 | 177 | 189 | 3 | 136 | 139 | 1,654 |
189 killed == 11.4 per cent.
Total killed and wounded, 589; missing and captured, 153; died in Confederate prisons (previously included), 30.
| battles. | K. & M. W. | battles. | K. & M. W. |
| Fredericksburg, Va. | 9 | Cold Harbor, Va. | 3 |
| Fitz Hugh's Crossing, Va. | 4 | Petersburg, Va. (assault) | 9 |
| Gettysburg, Pa. | 94 | Siege of Petersburg, Va. | 5 |
| Wilderness, Va. | 25 | Weldon Railroad, Va. | 4 |
| Spotsylvania, Va. | 24 | Hatcher's Run, Va. | 1 |
| North Anna, Va. | 3 | Picket, Dec. 6, 1864 | 1 |
| Totopotomoy, Va. | 1 | Dabney's Mills, Va. | 5 |
| Bethesda Church, Va. | 1 | | |
Present, also, at
Chancellorsville;
Mine Run;
Hicksford.
notes.--The largest number of casualties in any regiment at
Gettysburg occurred in the Twenty-fourth Michigan.
It was then in the
Iron Brigade,
Wadsworth's (1st) Division, First Corps, and fought in the battle of the first day, while in position in
McPherson's woods near
Willoughby Run.
It was obliged to fall back from this line, but did not yield the ground until three-fourths of its number had been struck down.
Entering the engagement with 28 officers and 468 men, it lost 69 killed, 247 wounded, and 47 missing; total, 363.
1 Fully one-half of the missing ones were killed or wounded, Eight officers were killed, and fourteen wounded; four color-bearers were killed, and three wounded;
Colonel Morrow was wounded and captured.
Upon the discontinuance of the First Corps, in March, 1864,
Wadsworth's Division was transferred to the Fifth Corps, becoming the Fourth Division, with the brigade under command of
General Cutler.
At the
Wilderness, the regiment captured the colors of the Forty-Eighth Virginia;
Colonel Morrow was severely wounded, and the casualties amounted to 14 killed, 48 wounded, and 42 missing or captured.
Under command of
Lieutenant-Colonel Albert M. Edwards, it was under fire at
Spotsylvania in the various engagements near that place, sustaining a loss of 20 killed, 39 wounded, and 1 missing. The regiment became so reduced by its losses that it mustered only 120 men for the assault on
Petersburg, June 18, 1864.
It was withdrawn from the field in February, 1865, and ordered to
Springfield, Ill., where it was assigned to duty at the draft rendezvous.
The regiment was mustered into the
United States service August 15, 1862, having been recruited within thirty days. It was mustered out, at
Detroit, June 30, 1865.
