August 15 -19:
20th Michigan Volunteer Infantry
Regiment organized at Jackson, Michigan.
September 1:
Left for
Washington, D. C.
September 8:
Marched to
Leesburg, Virginia.
September 18 - 22:
To
Sharpsburg, Maryland.
Assignment: 1st Brigade,
1st Division, IXth Army Corps, Army of the Potomac.
Positioned
near the Antietam during the battle but not committed to the battle.
September 22 - October 6:
Duty at Sharpsburg, Maryland.
October 6 - 14:
At Pleasant
Valley, Maryland.
October 8:
Abraham Lincoln reviews the
regiment.
October 14 - 30:
At Nolen's
Ford.
November 2 -15:
Advance on
Culpeper, Virginia.
November 16 -19:
Falmouth,
Virginia
December 12 -15:
Battle of Fredericksburg,
Virginia.
1863
January 20 - 24:
"Mud
March".
January 15 - February 19:
At
Falmouth.
February 19:
Moved to Newport
News, Virginia enroute to Kentucky.
March 19-23:
To Kentucky.
April:
Assignment: Army of
the Ohio.
April 26 - May 12:
Expedition
to Monticello and operations in Southeast Kentucky.
May 9:
Detachment from
the regiment: Skirmish Alcorn's Distillery near Monticello.
May 10: Horse
Shoe Bend,
Kentucky.
June 3 - 14:
Moved to
Vicksburg, Mississippi.
June:
Assignment: 3rd
Brigade, 1st Division, IXth Army Corps, Army of the Tennessee.
June 14 - July 4:
Siege of
Vicksburg as part of the Army of Maneuver commanded by General
Sherman. Positioned northeast Vicksburg to protect General
Grant and the main siege lines around Vicksburg.
July 4 -10:
Advance on
Jackson, Mississippi.
July 10-17:
Siege of Jackson.
July 18-22:
Destruction of
Mississippi Central Railroad at Madison Station.
July 23 - August 4:
Camp at
Milldale.
August 4 - 30:
Moved to
Covington, Kentucky then to Crab Orchard, Kentucky.
August, 1863:
Assignment:
Army of the Ohio.
September 10 - 26:
March to
Knoxville, Tennessee.
October 10:
Action at Blue
Springs.
October11 - November 14:
Duty
at Lenoir Station.
November 4 - December 24:
Knoxville Campaign.
November 16:
Campbell's
Station.
November 17
December 5:
Siege of Knoxville.
November 29:
Repulse of
General Longstreet's assault on Fort Saunders, Knoxville/
December 5 -18:
Pursuit of
Longstreet to Bean's Station.
1864
January:
Assignment: 1st
Brigade, 1st Division, IXth Army Corps.
January 21 - 22:
Strawberry
Plains.
January 24 - March 2:
Advance
to Morristown.
March 14:
Reconnaissance to
Chucky River.
March 23 - 30:
Moved from
Knoxville to Nicholasville, Kentucky then to Annapolis,
Maryland.
April:
Assignment: 2nd Brigade, 3rd Division, IXth
Army Corps, Army of the Potomac.
May 4 - June 15:
Campaign
from the Rapidan to the James River.
May 5 - 7:
Battles of the
Wilderness.
May 8 - 12:
Battle of
Spotsylvania.
May 10:
Ny River.
May 12 - 21:
Spotsylvania
Court House.
May 12:
Assault on the
Salient.
May 23 - 26:
North Anna
River.
May 23 - 24:
Ox Ford.
May 26 - 28:
On line of the
Pamunkey.
May 28 - 31:
Totopotomoy.
June 1-12:
Cold Harbor.
June 1-3:
Bethesda Church:
June 16-18.
Before
Petersburg
June 16, 1864, to April 2, 1865:
Siege of Petersburg,
July 30:
Mine Explosion
& Battle of the
Crater, Petersburg.
August 18-21:
Weldon
Railroad.
September:
Assignment:
2nd Brigade, 1st Division,
IXth Army Corps.
September 29-October 2:
Poplar
Springs Church.
October 8:
Reconnaissance on
Vaughan and Squirrel Level Roads.
October 27-28:
Boydton Plank
Road, Hatcher's Run.
1865
March 25: Battle of Fort
Stedman, Petersburg,
March 28-April 9: Appomattox Campaign.
April 2: Assault on and
capture of Petersburg.
April 3: Occupation of
Petersburg.
April 3-9:
Occupation duty at Sutherland Station west of
Petersburg during the pursuit of of the Army of
Northern Virginia and General Lee.
April 20-24; Moved to
Alexandria.
May 23. Grand Review in
Washington, D.C.
May 30, 1865. Mustered
out.
Casualties:
Combat deaths:
13 officers and 111 enlisted. Disease: 3 officers and 175
enlisted. Total 302
Comment:
More soldiers of the
20th died from disease than died in combat. When Anson Croman
was not in danger from combat, he was under constant threat
from the conditions of army life and the state of medical care
in the mid-19th century.
Source: The
story of the Twentieth Michigan infantry, July 15th,
1862 to May 30th, 1865. Compiled by Bryon
M. Cutcheon, 1904.