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25th Regiment Michigan Volunteer Infantry
File:Flag of Michigan.svg
Michigan state flag
Active September 22, 1862 to June 24, 1865
Country United States
Allegiance Union
Branch Infantry
Engagements Battle of Resaca
Battle of Kennesaw Mountain
Battle of Atlanta
Siege of Atlanta
Battle of Jonesboro
Battle of Franklin
Battle of Nashville
Campaign of the Carolinas

The 25th Regiment Michigan Volunteer Infantry was an infantry regiment that served in the Union Army during the American Civil War.

Service[]

The 25th Michigan Infantry was mustered into Federal service at Kalamazoo, Michigan on September 22, 1862. After the regiment arrived at Bolivar, Tennessee, in October, Dwight May, a future Lieutenant Governor of Michigan, became the lieutenant colonel.

The regiment was mustered out of service on June 24, 1865.

Total strength and casualties[]

The regiment suffered 1 officer and 34 enlisted men who were killed in action or mortally wounded and 2 officers and 141 enlisted men who died of disease, for a total of 178 fatalities.[1]

Commanders[]

  • Colonel O.H. Moore

See also[]

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

Notes[]

  1. http://www.civilwararchive.com/Unreghst/unmiinf3.htm#25th The Civil War Archive website after Dyer, Frederick Henry. A Compendium of the War of the Rebellion. 3 vols. New York: Thomas Yoseloff, 1959.

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