After a little more digging on the Civil War, I found another unit that
piked my interest.  This unit had a company of men that were either
students or alumni of the Michigan Normal College.  This is now known
as Eastern Michigan University and I am an alumnus of it.  The figure
itself is pretty much a straight out of the box Sideshow Officer and 
depicts an officer from this Regiment.

The Seventeenth Infantry, the celebrated "Stonewall Regiment of the Union",
rendezvoused and mustered in at Detroit on May 29, 1862, when after a short
period of training and equipping was sent by rail to Washington, D.C., there
assigned to the 1st. Brigade, 1st. Division of the 9th. Corp. From there they
were dispatched into the Maryland Campaign, under the overall command of
General G. McClellan. In less than 2 weeks after leaving the state of Michigan,
the Regiment was hotly contested at the battle of South Mountain on September
14th., whence it emerged with a loss of 27 killed and 114 wounded, numbering
amoung the wounded was Lt. Galligan who later died of his wounds at Middletown,
MD on the 24th.

On the 17th. the Regiment was again deperately engaged at Antietam, sustaining
a further loss of 18 killed and 87 wounded. After the single bloodiest day in
American warfare the Regiment was on the front skirmishing with the fleeing
Confederates, losing yet another man. The Regiment then left with its command
returning to Virginia.

The Seventeenth left Waterford, VA, on November 29th, and marched via Warrenton
to near Falmouth, where it encamped from the 18th. to December 12th. It crossed
the Rappahanock River with the army at Fredericksburg, but did not participate
in the battle that ensued there. On the 14th. of February, 1863 the Regiment
embarked on steamers at Aquia Creek for Newport News, where it encamped until
the 19th. of March, when it proceeded, in command of Colonel Luce, by transport
to Baltimore, thence by rail to Louisville, KY, then on to Bardstown. April
3rd. it moved to Lebanon, thence to Columbia on the 29th. Marching from
Columbia, it arrived at Jamestown on the 31st. of May. The Ninth Corp having
been ordered to reinforce General Grant in Mississippi, then proceeded by rail
to Cairo, IL, then down the Mississippi River to the Yazoo River. Disembarking,
the Regiment went into camp near Hayne's Bluff, MS. June 22nd. it was ordered
to Milldale Church, there to be engaged in erecting fortifications. Leaving
Milldale on the 4th. of July, it participated in the advance on Jackson,
arriving before that town on the 10th., after a series of skirmishes. The
Regiment lost before Jackson, 1 man who was mortally wounded.

Returning to Milldale, it embarked August 3rd. heading for Kentucky, arriving
at Crab Orchard on the 24th. Marching from there, it engaged in the movements
made by the Army of the Ohio into eastern Tennessee, in September and October.
At Knoxville on the 14th. of October, ti marched to Lenoir Station.

Like the Second, Eighth and Twentieth Infantry, which were in the same Corp,
the Regiment had traveled over 2100 miles during the year.

The Regiment, then attached to the 3rd. Brigade of the 1st Division of the 9th.
Corp remained there until the morning of the 14th., when it marched to Louden,
to oppose the advance of General Longsteet, then moving on Knoxville. It lay
under its arms during the night, and on the following morning commenced falling
back, closely followed by the Confederates. It continued to retreat acting as a
rear guard for the rest of the Corp. While crossing Turkey Creek, Longsteet's
men attacked in force,causung a severe engagement to occur. In this action the
Regiment lost 7 men killed, 19 wounded and 10 missing.

During the retreat to Knoxville, and during the Seige of Fort Saunders, the men
suffered greatly, especially while being besieged, from the want of proper and
sufficient rations. When the seige was lifted by the retreating Confederates
the 17th. was orderd to Annapolis, MD where 200 new recruits were incorporated
into its ranks.

From Annapolis the Regiment set out with the Grant Campaign of 1864, when in
May of that year it lost 7 men killed and 39 wounded at the Wilderness. In the
action on the 9th. the Regiment was detached from its Brigade to support a
battery. Crossing the Nye River it secured, by rapid movement, an important
position, repulsing the charging Confederates who were endeavering to take 
possesion of that ground. The Regiment was actively engaged in the movements of
the 10th. and 11th., when on the 12th. they charged the southern works at
Spottsylvania Court House. In this charge the Regiment lost 23 killed, 73
wounded and 93 taken prisoners. The loss in prisoners was owing to the Regiment
being surrounded by a greatly superior force.

On the 16th. of May the Regiment was designated as an engineer troop and served
in that capacity the remainder of the year. It moved with its Corp from the
North Anna River, thence to Cold Harbor, across the Chickahominy and the James
River to the Seige Petersburg, where it remained until the city fell. From the
time it arrived in front of Petersburg untill its fall the Regiment was
actively building and reconstructing fortifications, all the while being held
in reserve, if needed as infantry.

After Lee's surrender at Appomattox Court House, the Regiment proceeded to
Washington, D.C. to participate in the Grand Review, remaining there until June
3rd., when it was mustered out of service and started for Detroit, arriving
there on the 7th., to be paid off and disbanded.

This is my take on an officer from the Regiment.




Here is their Regimental Flag:


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