17th Michigan Volunteer Infantry Regiment
9th Corps, 3rd Division, 1st Brigade
(Front):
17th Michigan
Volunteer Infantry Regiment
9th Corps
3rd Division
1st Brigade
Michigan units on the field
in the 9th Corps
17th Michigan Vol. Infantry
20th Michigan Vol. Infantry
8th Michigan Vol. Infantry
27th Michigan Vol. Infantry
2nd Michigan Vol. Infantry
1st Michigan Sharpshooters
Losses for the 17th Michigan
On May 12, 1864
26 killed
70 wounded
100 missing or captured
(Back):
At 2 p.m., May 12th, two Ninth Corps brigades were ordered to attack the Confederate works one-quarter mile southeast of this spot. The 17th Michigan was on the extreme left of the Federal line. As the regiment approached its objective, Brig. Gen. James Lane's North Carolina Brigade emerged from the thick woods and struck it on the left flank in the bloody hand-to-hand fighting that followed, the 17th Michigan lots its national colors and 189 of the 225 men it carried into battle. Three soldiers later received the Medal of Honor for their brave but unsuccessful efforts to save the colors.
Marker is on Burnside Drive, on the right when traveling east.
Courtesy hmdb.org
