9th Michigan Volunteer Infantry Regiment
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| 9th Regiment Michigan Volunteer Infantry | |
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 Michigan state flag |
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| Active | October 15, 1861 to September 15, 1865 |
| Country | United States |
| Allegiance | Union |
| Branch | Infantry |
| Engagements | Battle of Stone's River Battle Of Chickamauga Battle of Resaca Battle of Kennesaw Mountain Siege of Atlanta Battle of Jonesboro |
The 9th Regiment Michigan Volunteer Infantry was an infantry regiment that served in the Union Army during the American Civil War.
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[edit] Service
The 9th Michigan Infantry was organized at Detroit, Michigan and mustered into Federal service for a three year enlistment on October 15, 1861.
On July 12, 1863, Colonel William Ward Duffield arrived in Murfreesboro, Tennessee, in command of the 9th Michigan. The following day the Union garrison, under the overall command of Brig. Gen. Thomas T. Crittenden, was attacked and defeated by Confederate General Nathan Bedford Forrest in the First Battle of Murfreesboro. Col. Duffield was twice wounded during the attack and captured; he was exchanged on August 27, 1862.
The Ninth Michigan's encampment at the time of the raid was “The Oaklands,” the plantation and home of Major Lewis M. Maney, a Mexican War veteran and slave owner, then medically unfit for service (he suffered from Tuberculosis). In May Maney had become one of the “twelve prominent citizens” arrested and “held as hostages to prevent further outrages” against Union forces. According to some sources, Major Maney also had a date with the gallows, only forestalled by Forrest's Raid. His subsequent attitude toward Duffield is not without irony, then, for it was Maney and his family that took the Colonel into their home and nursed him back to health. The Maneys' compassion and kindness engendered a friendship between the two families that lasted for years.
The regiment was mustered out on September 15, 1865.
[edit] Total strength and casualties
Over its existence, the regiment carried a total of 2074 men on its muster rolls.[1]
The 9th Michigan lost 2 officers and 22 enlistedmen killed in action or motally wounded and 4 officers and 281 enlisted men who died of disease, for a total of 309 fatalities.[2]
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[edit] Notes
- ^ http://www.michiganinthewar.org/rosters.htm Michigan in the Civil War website, retrieved June 3, 2007)
- ^ http://www.civilwararchive.com/Unreghst/unmiinf2.htm#9th The Civil War Archive website after Dyer, Frederick Henry. A Compendium of the War of the Rebellion. 3 vols. New York: Thomas Yoseloff, 1959.
- ^ http://www.michiganinthewar.org/infantry/9compa.htm Michigan in the Civil War website, retrieved June 3, 2007)
