19th Michigan Infantry Regiment explained

Unit Name:	19th Michigan Infantry Regiment
Dates:	September 5, 1862, to June 10, 1865
Country:	United States
Allegiance:	Union
Branch:	Infantry
Battles:	Battle of Thompson's Station Battle of Resaca Battle of Kennesaw Mountain Siege of Atlanta March to the Sea Battle of Bentonville Battle of Brentwood

The 19th Michigan Infantry Regiment was an infantry regiment that served in the Union Army during the American Civil War.

Service

The 19th Michigan Infantry was mustered into Federal service at Dowagiac, Michigan, on September 5, 1862. Among the soldiers was Frank Baldwin, who would go on to become one of only nineteen men to ever receive two Medal of Honor citations, one for the Civil War and another after the war while fighting the Indians in the U.S. Cavalry.

At the Battle of Thompson's Station, March 5th, 1863, the regiment was captured. Losses were 20 killed, 92 wounded, 345 captured, total 457.^[1]

The regiment was mustered out of service on June 10, 1865.

Total strength and casualties

The regiment suffered 7 officers and 88 enlisted men who were killed in action or mortally wounded and 160 enlisted men who died of disease, for a total of 255 fatalities.^[2]

Commanders

• Colonel Henry C. Gilbert
• Lieutenant Colonel William R. Shafter

See also

• List of Michigan Civil War Units
• Michigan in the American Civil War

Notes

1. Fox, William F., Lt.-Col., 'Regimental Losses in the American Civil War, 1861-1865', Albany, N.Y., 1889, p. 435.
2. http://www.civilwararchive.com/Unreghst/unmiinf2.htm#19th The Civil War Archive website after Dyer, Frederick Henry. A Compendium of the War of the Rebellion. 3 vols. New York: Thomas Yoseloff, 1959.

References

• The Civil War Archive
• CIVIL WAR INDEX
• The Civil War-Battle Unit Details-UNION MICHIGAN VOLUNTEERS

Further reading

• Lester, Robert, and Gary Hoag. Civil War Unit Histories [Part 4], The Union, Midwest and West . Bethesda, Md: University Publications of America, 1994.
• Michigan, and George H. Turner. Record of Service of Michigan Volunteers in the Civil War, 1861-1865 [Nineteenth Infantry]. Lansing, Mich.: [Michigan Adjutant-General's Dept.], 1905.
• Rice, Franklin G. Diary of 19th Michigan Volunteer Infantry During Their Three Years Service in the War of the Rebellion. Big Rapids, Mich.?: s.n, 1970.