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{{Infobox Military Unit |unit_name= 22nd Regiment Michigan Volunteer Infantry |image=[[Image:Flag of Michigan.svg|100px]] |caption=Michigan state flag |dates= August 29, 1862 to June 26, 1865 |country= [[United States]] |allegiance= [[Union (American Civil War)|Union]] |branch= [[Infantry]] |equipment= <!-- Culture and history --> |battles= [[Battle of Chickamauga]]<BR>[[Battle of Kennesaw Mountain]]<BR>[[Siege of Atlanta]]<BR>[[Battle of Jonesboro]] }} The '''22nd Regiment Michigan Volunteer Infantry''' was an [[infantry]] [[regiment]] that served in the [[Union Army]] during the [[American Civil War]]. ==Service== Former [[Governor of Michigan]] [[Moses Wisner]] worked to raise the 22nd Michigan Infantry and was commissioned as its [[Colonel (United States)|colonel]]. The new regiment was mustered into Federal service at [[Pontiac, Michigan]], on August 29, 1862. Among its ranks was [[Henry W. Howgate]], who after the war became a controversial figure as the Chief Disbursing Officer for the [[United States Army Signal Corps]] in charge of [[Arctic]] explorations.<ref name="harper">{{cite news |first=Kenn |last=Harper |authorlink= |coauthors= |title=Henry Howgate |url=http://www.nunatsiaqnews.com/archives/2007/710/71026/opinionEditorial/columns.html |work= |publisher=Nunatsiaq News |date=October, 2007 |accessdate=2008-04-14}}</ref> In September 1862, Wisner was stricken with [[typhoid fever]] while en route to the [[regiment]]'s deployment and died in [[Kentucky]].<ref>[http://www.usgennet.org/usa/mi/county/tuscola/book/book141-146.htm Biographical Portraits]</ref> The 22nd Michigan Infantry was mustered out of service on June 26, 1865. ==Total strength and casualties== The regiment suffered 3 officers and 86 enlisted men who were killed in action or mortally wounded and 4 officers and 306 enlisted men who died of disease, for a total of 399 fatalities.<ref>http://www.civilwararchive.com/Unreghst/unmiinf3.htm#22nd The Civil War Archive website after Dyer, Frederick Henry. '''A Compendium of the War of the Rebellion'''. 3 vols. New York: Thomas Yoseloff, 1959.</ref> ==Commanders== *[[Colonel]] ==See also== *[[List of Michigan Civil War Units]] *[[Michigan in the American Civil War]] ==Notes== <references/> ==References== *[http://www.civilwararchive.com/unionmi.htm The Civil War Archive] [[Category:Michigan Civil War regiments]] {{AmericanCivilWar-unit-stub}}
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