11th Michigan Volunteer Infantry Regiment

11th Regiment Michigan Volunteer Infantry
File:Flag of Michigan.svg Michigan state flag
Active	September 24, 1861, to September 30, 1864
Country	United States
Allegiance	Union
Branch	Infantry
Engagements	Siege of Nashville Battle of Missionary Ridge Battle of Kennesaw Mountain Siege of Atlanta

The 11th Regiment Michigan Volunteer Infantry was an infantry regiment that served in the Union Army during the American Civil War. It was assigned to front-line combat duty in the Army of the Cumberland in the Western Theater and participated in most of its leading battles and campaigns, including the Chattanooga Campaign and the 1864 Atlanta Campaign.

Service

The 11th Michigan Infantry was organized at White Pigeon, Michigan, primarily from volunteer recruits raised from the St. Joseph County, Michigan, region. It was mustered into Federal service for a three-year enlistment on September 24, 1861. It served in a variety of assignments and campaigns, seeing action initially under its first colonel, future U.S. Congressman William L. Stoughton.

The much depleted regiment was mustered out on September 30, 1864, and recruits and veterans whose terms of enlistment had not yet expired were transferred to the 11th Michigan Volunteer Infantry Regiment (Reorganized).

Total strength and casualties

The regiment suffered 5 officers and 107 enlisted men who were killed in action or motally wounded, and 2 officers and 194 enlisted men who died of disease, for a total of 308 fatalities.

Commanders

• Col. William L. Stoughton
• Lt. Col. Melvin Mudge

See also

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

References

• The Civil War Archive website after Dyer, Frederick Henry, A Compendium of the War of the Rebellion. 3 vols. New York: Thomas Yoseloff, 1959

Here is a link to the pages of a booklet for the 27th Reunion of the Eleventh Michigan Volunteer Cavalry (includes photos):

http://debwong.com/Cavalry.html