This is the closest I can get to the 2nd Michigan Volunteer Infantry. Our Version of the history was created from information I collected from different sources

Private Church

See Plaque which is accross the Michigan Monument in Vicksburg.

Upon its surrender of Vicksburg the Regiment moved with the army of General Sherman (Photo on Right), a part of which was the Ninth Corp, in pursuit of General Johnston, who then occupied the country in the vicinity of Jackson. Marching from camp at Flour Hill, July 4th, in command of Colonel Humphrey, and serving in the Second Brigade, same Division and Corp, it arrived in front of Jackson on the evening of the 10th. On the 11th the Regiment being deployed as skirmishers, charged and drove the Confederates from their rifle pits in front of town; but was obliged by superior numbers to retire. On the 13th and 14th, the loss in front of Jackson were minor.

On the 18th and 19th, the Regiment burned the depot and tore up the track at Madison Station, on the Memphis and New Orleans railroad. It then moved via Jackson to Hilldale. Leaving Hilldale August 4th, the Regiment proceeded, via Cincinnati and Covington, to Nicholasville, Ky., from thence to Crab Orchard, where it encamped August 30th. Breaking camp on the 10th of September, the Second marched via Cumberland Gap to Knoxville, Tennessee, where it arrived on the 26th. It remained in camp in the neighborhood of Knoxville until Oct.8th.

On the 10th again in the Second Brigade, took part in the engagement at Blue Springs, where its loss was 1 wounded. On the 20th it arrived again at Knoxville, whence it moved via London to Lenoir, where on Oct. 31, began building winter quarters.

In the meantime the Confederates, under General Longstreet, had commenced their advance on Knoxville, when the Regiment, in command of Major Byington, Colonel Humphrey being in command of the Brigade, was again ordered into the field to assist in checking them. On the 14th it fell back with the army toward Knoxville, being engaged again at Loudon, November 14th. At Lenoir Station on the 15th, and especially at Campbell�s Station on the 16th, where a sharp action took place, the Regiment losing 31 killed, wounded and missing. On the 17th it fell back with the army to Knoxville, brisk skirmishing being kept up with Longstreet�s men during the movement.

The Regiment actively assisted in the Defence of Knoxville until the 4th of December, when the Southern troops withdrew. The hardships and privations of the siege were very great, the men suffering especially from want of sufficient food and clothing. On November 24th the Regiment charged the Confederate works.

A portion of the picket in front of Fort Saunders was made up of details from the Second Michigan, in command of Captain Charles H. Hodskin, when, on falling back took possession of a ditch in front of the fort, a portion of which they continued to hold until the rebel forces were driven from the attack. Four companies of the Second Michigan, A, H, G and F, in command of Captain Emil Moores, occupied a short rifle pit adjoining the left rampart of Fort Saunders, being on that side of the fort not fronting the Confederates; but, on the side facing Knoxville, which was not enclosed by a wall or rampart, and when the main attack was made these companies moved inside the fort defending a portion of the principal works. The other six companies K, B, I, E, C and D, in command of Captain J. V. Ruehle Jr. were in the rifle pit, extending from the right rampart of the fort, the Twentieth Michigan being between them and the fort.

December 8th, the Regiment marched, in command of Captain Ruehle, to Rutledge, where on the 15th met the Confederates at Thurley�s Ford, proceeding on the 16th to Blain�s Cross Roads, where it remained until the middle of January 1864. At this place 198 members of the Regiment re-enlisted as Veteran Volunteers. From Blain�s Cross Roads it proceeded to Strawberry Plains and Knoxville, thence to Erie Station, where it encamped until February 4th. Here it received orders to report to Detroit, arriving there on the 24th, the returning veterans were furloughed for 30 days.