22nd Michigan Infantry
!st Brigade - 1st Division
[Front Side of Marker]
22nd Michigan - Infantry
1st Brigade - 1st Division - Reserve Corps.
[Reverse Side of Marker]
Michigan
To her Twenty-Second Regiment of Infantry
Commanded
By Colonel Heber LeFavour, Lieut. Colonel William Sanborn,
Captain Alonzo M. Keeler
Whitaker’s Brigade, Steedman’s Division, Granger’s Corps.
This monument marks the position where the Regiment performed
It’s most important service, Sept. 20th, 1863.
Engaged 455, Killed 32, Wounded 96, Missing 261, Total loss 389.
On the 19th the Regiment marched from Rossville joining
The Brigade near McAfee’s Church. From there it moved about noon
Of the 20th toward this position. After three hours desperate combat
Having exhausted their ammunition, they charged overwhelming numbers
Until overcome.
In the Chattanooga Campaigns it performed important engineer service,
Major Henry S. Dean Commanding.
Marker can be reached from Glenn-Kelly Road.
Courtesy hmdb.org
