Federal Regiment

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)

Maps Showing this Unit

Detail Map #7: Burnside Attacks the Lower Bridge (10 am-1 pm)
Detail Map #12: Burnside's Ninth Corps Climbs Toward Sharpsburg (3-4 pm)
Detail Map #13: AP Hill's Division Hits Burnside's Flank (4-5 pm)
Detail Map #14: Sykes' Regulars Near Sharpsburg (4-5 pm)

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

More on the Web

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

We have 86 individuals in the AotW database who were on the Maryland Campaign with this unit:

Co.	Rank	Name	Casualty?
A	Pvt	Ordiway, Elijah	Died (d) 11/12
B	Pvt	Bigelow, Nelson	KIA 09/17
B	Pvt	Chase, George Walter	WIA 09/17
B	Pvt	Hall, Albert William	KIA 09/17
B	Pvt	Heslet, John	MWIA 09/14
B	Pvt	Jones, Lewis	KIA 09/17
B	Pvt	Kenyon, Jesse A.	MWIA 09/14
B	Pvt	Kirk, George M.	MWIA 09/14
B	Pvt	Randall, Felix R.	KIA 09/14
C	Pvt	Colf, Israel B.	KIA 09/14
C	Lt	Duffield, William E.	MWIA 09/14
C	Corp	Ford, Robert	MWIA 09/17
C	Pvt	Miner, Leonard E.	MWIA 09/17
C	Pvt	Osborn, Frank A.	MWIA 09/14
C	Pvt	Troy, John A.	KIA 09/14
C	Corp	Vicory, Anson M.	WIA 09/14
D	Pvt	Blanchard, Simon F.	MWIA 09/17
D	Pvt	Dennis, Richard	Died (d) 10/02
D	Pvt	Hovey, Spencer H.	KIA 09/14
D	Pvt	Hunt, Samuel	KIA 09/14
D	Pvt	McMartin, Daniel E.	KIA 09/14
D	Pvt	Moore, Martin V.	KIA 09/14
D	Pvt	Palmotier, Almeron	KIA 09/14
D	Pvt	Powers, Nathan F.	Died (d) 10/23
D	Corp	Slade, Orville	KIA 09/17
D	Pvt	Smith, Wilbur F.	KIA 09/14
D	Pvt	Tomlinson, Henry	KIA 09/14
D	Pvt	Ward, Benjamin	KIA 09/14
E	Pvt	Burr, Henry Dunning	WIA 09/17
E	Capt	Campbell, Gabriel
E	Corp	Hawley, George Myron	MWIA 09/14
E	Pvt	Hopkins, Daniel Gilbert	MWIA 09/14
E	Pvt	Irwin, Robert C.	KIA 09/14
E	Pvt	King, Francis E.	KIA 09/17
E	Pvt	Marvin, John H.	MWIA 09/17
E	Pvt	McKinnon, Alexander	KIA 09/14
E	Pvt	Peck, Gilbert B.	KIA 09/17
E	Pvt	Ruckman, Webster	KIA 09/17
E	Pvt	Sayler, Andrew	KIA 09/14
E	Corp	Webb, Frederick S.	MWIA 09/17
E	Pvt	Woodard, William A.	KIA 09/14
F	Pvt	Bushre, Joseph	WIA 09/14
F	Pvt	Dicey, Joseph	MWIA 09/14
F	Pvt	Fox, John T.	KIA 09/17
F	Pvt	Gardner, Silas	KIA 09/14
F	Pvt	Jordan, William	KIA 09/17
F	Pvt	Meacham, Ephraim	KIA 09/14
F	Pvt	Meyer, Henry Augustus Truluck	KIA 09/17
F	Pvt	Ross, Richard	KIA 09/17
F	Capt	Swift, Frederick William
G	Pvt	Belcher, Uriah H.	MWIA 09/14
G	Pvt	Bushre, Alexis	KIA 09/17
G	Sgt	Darling, Ansel J.	KIA 09/17
G	Pvt	Mills, Elon G.	WIA 09/17
G	Pvt	Pickell, Calvin A.	MWIA 09/17
G	Pvt	Pickell, John B.	WIA 09/17
G	Pvt	Schully, Thomas	MWIA 09/17
G	Pvt	Strassell, John	MWIA 09/17
G	Pvt	Zott, Peter	KIA 09/14
H	Pvt	Chapman, Hobart B.	WIA 09/17
H	Pvt	Crane, Newman	MWIA 09/14
H	Capt	Edmonds, Charles A.	WIA 09/14
H	Pvt	Heller, James	MWIA 09/14
H	Pvt	Osborn, Samuel	WIA 09/17
H	Pvt	Vredenburg, Delos W.	KIA 09/14
I	Pvt	Belknap, Benjamin F.	KIA 09/14
I	Pvt	Carney, Mason	KIA 09/14
I	Pvt	Chaffee, William E.	MWIA 09/17
I	Lt	Galligan, George A.	MWIA 09/14
I	Pvt	Kent, William J.	MWIA 09/17
I	Pvt	Lilley, David V.	KIA 09/14
I	Sgt	Weeks, Charles L.	MWIA 09/14
K	Pvt	Ashley, Edwin B.	KIA 09/17
K	Lt	Baker, Benjamin B.	WIA 09/17
K	Pvt	Cheeny, Oliver	KIA 09/14
K	Pvt	Clay, William	KIA 09/14
K	Pvt	Ives, Leonard	KIA 09/14
K	Pvt	Keho, Owen	MWIA 09/14
K	Corp	McMartin, John E.	MWIA 09/14
K	Sgt	Sears, Eli	KIA 09/14
K	Pvt	Tompkins, Daniel D.	KIA 09/14
K	Sgt	Tuttle, James H.	KIA 09/17
F&S	LCol	Luce, Constant
F&S	Maj	Lyon, George Collins	WIA 09/17
F&S	Lt	Richards, William Vigors	WIA 09/17
F&S	Col	Withington, William Herbert

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