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17th Michigan Infantry

"Stonewall Regiment"
Organized: Detroit, MI; mustered in 8/1862

 

Commanding Officer on the Antietam Campaign:
  Col. William H. Withington

 

This Regiment's Chain of Command:
  Army - Army of the Potomac
  Corps - Ninth Army Corps
  Division - 1st Division, 9th Corps
  Brigade - 1st Brigade, 1st Division, 9th Corps


Unit history

"The 17th Michigan Volunteer Infantry Regiment was mustered at the Detroit Barracks in August 1862 under the command of Colonel William H. Withington. The regiment consisted of raw recruits from field, workshop and schoolroom. One company was composed almost entirely of students from Ypsilanti Normal School, now Eastern Michigan University. With less than a month of military training, the 17th left for Washington DC, on August 27, 1862. From there it was sent to the Maryland campaign. On September 14, a little more than two weeks after leaving the state and just three days before the Battle of Antietam, the regiment engaged in battle here."
(from Stonewall Regiment monument text by Bill Christen)

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Battlefield Tablets for this Unit

Tablet #56: Ninth Army Corps - 15 Sep, 7 AM to 16 Sep, 3 PM
Tablet #62: Willcox's Division, Ninth Army Corps - 16 Sep, 9 PM to 18 Sep, 6 PM
Tablet #122: Army of the Potomac - 17 Sep, 10 AM to 17 Sep, 6 PM
Tablet #99: Willcox's Division, Ninth Army Corps - 17 Sep, 2 PM to 18 Sep, 9 AM
Tablet #70, cont: Ninth Army Corps - 17 Sep, 3 PM to 17 Sep, 5 PM
Tablet #70: Ninth Army Corps - 17 Sep, 7 AM to 17 Sep, 3 PM
Tablet #57: Ninth Army Corps - 17 Sep, 7 AM to 17 Sep, 5 PM
Tablet #63: Christ's Brigade, Willcox's Division - 17 Sep, 7 AM to 18 Sep, 5 PM

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See the 17th Michigan Stonewall Regiment marker on South Mountain from a post on behind AotW.

We have 88 individuals in the AotW database who were on the Maryland Campaign with this unit:

 

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APvtOrdiway, Elijah Died (d)   11/12     We have a picture for this person We have some details for this person
BPvtBigelow, Nelson KIA   09/17     We have some details for this person
BPvtChase, George WalterWIA   09/17     We have some details for this person
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