The 20th Michigan Infantry Regiment was an infantry regiment that served in the Union Army during the American Civil War.
Service The 20th Michigan Infantry was organized at Jackson, Michigan, between August 15 and August 19, 1862.
The regiment was mustered out of service on May 30, 1865.
The regiment is mentioned briefly in Chapter IX of MacKinlay Kantor's Pulitzer Prize-winning novel "Andersonville" (1955).
Total strength and casualties The regiment lost 13 officers and 111 enlisted men killed in action or mortally wounded, and a further 3 officers and 175 enlisted men who died of disease, a total of 302 fatalities.http://www.civilwararchive.com/Unreghst/unmiinf2.htm#20th The Civil War Archive website after Dyer, Frederick Henry. A Compendium of the War of the Rebellion. 3 vols. New York: Thomas Yoseloff, 1959.
Commanders Colonel Adolphus Wesley Williams Colonel Byron M. Cutcheon
See also List of Michigan Civil War Units Michigan in the American Civil War
References
External links
The Civil War Archive http://www.bookemon.com/read-book/58241 Addison Smith Boyce Civil War Journal