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THREE HUNDRED FIGHTING KEGIMENTS.

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SECOND MICHIGAN INFANTRY. HARTRANFT'S BRIGADE--AY ILLCOX'S DIVISION — NINTH CORPS.

(1) COL. ISRAEL B. RICHARDSON. VOL. P.;MAJOR-Gw«., U. S. V. (Killed). (2) COL. ORLANDO M. POK. TO. p., B. «.; BVT. BRIO-GKN. U.S. A.

(3) COL. WILLIAM Hl'MI'IIIlEY ; BVT. Biuo.-GxN., U. S. V.

225 killed — 13.0 per cent. Total of killed and wounded, 806; died in Confederate prisons (previously included), 38.

BATTLE*. K.&M.W

Wilderness, Va 13

Spotsylvania, Va 4

North Anna, Va 3

Bethesda Church, Va

Petersburg, Va., June, i 7-18, 1864 65

Petersburg Mine, Va 11

Petersburg Trenches, Ya 14

Weldon Railroad, Va 2

Peeble's Farm, Va 3

Boydton Road, Va i

Fort Stedman, Va 5

On Picket, Va., July i, 1864 ; July 27, 1864. ... 2

BATTLES. K.&M.W.

On Picket, Munson's Hill, Va., 1861 2

Yorktown, Va i

Williamsburg, Va 21

Fair Oaks, Va 14

Seven Days' Battle, Va 3

Manassas, Va i

Chantilly, Va i

Fredericksburg, Va i

Jackson, Miss 15

Campbell's Station, Tenn 6

Knoxville, Tenn 28

On Picket, Tenn., Nov. 25, 1863 i

Present, also, at Blackburn's Ford; First Bull Run; Siege of Vicksburg; Blue Springs, Tenn.; Lenoir, Tenn. ; Totopotomoy ; Cold Harbor ; Ream's Station ; Fall of Petersburg.

NOTES. —Organized April 25, 1861, and mustered into the United States service on May 25th. It was assigned to Berry's (3d) Brigade, Kearny's (3d) Division, Third Corps; and at Williamsburg, according to General Kearny, it maintained the key-point of the position ; loss, 17 killed, 38 wounded, and 5 missing. Colo nel Poe, in his official report of that battle, mentions the fact that one of his men " was found dead beside a dead foe, each transfixed with the other's bayonet." In November, 1862, the regiment was transferred to Poe's (ist) Brigade, Burns's (ist) Division, Ninth Corps. In February, 1863, the Ninth Corps moved to New port News, Va., and thence, in March, to Kentucky; it remained there until June, when it joined Grant's Army at Vicksburg. The regiment distinguished itself in a gallant affair on the skirmish line at Jackson, Miss., July ii, 1863, in which it lost 9 killed, 40 wounded, and 10 missing; it was then in Leasure's (3d) Brigade, Welsh's (ist) Division. During the Siege of Knoxville, on November 24, 1863, the regiment, with a gal lantry unsurpassed, made a sortie with 150 men in which Major Byington, Adjutant Noble, two line officers and the color-bearer were killed; 84 were killed or wounded, six sergeants losing a leg each. In the assault on Petersburg. June 17-18th, it lost 21 killed, 170 wounded, and 13 missing; total, 204.

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