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Michigan 26th Volunteer Infantry, Company I (Union)

12/12/1862

Organized - Michigan 26th Volunteer Infantry, Company I - Michigan

08/05/1864

Battle - Spotsylvania Court House - Spotsylvania County, Virginia

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Spotsylvania Court House

Following the Battle of the Wilderness, Lieut. Gen. Ulysses S. Grant marched the Union army south with the hope of capturing Spotsylvania Court House and preventing Robert E. Lee's army from retreating further. Lee's Confederates, however, managed to get ahead of the Federals and block the road. Fighting began on May 8th, when the Union Fifth Corps under Maj. Gen. Gouverneur K. Warren and the Sixth Corps under Maj. Gen. John Sedgwick engaged Confederate Maj. Gen. Richard Anderson's First Corps at Laurel Hi…READ MORE

04/06/1865

Mustered Out - Michigan 26th Volunteer Infantry, Company I - Michigan


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