Michigan in the War (link)

Michigan in the War (Michigan GenWeb)

http://www.migenweb.org/michiganinthewar/cavalry/2ndcav.htm

Similar/Related site:

https://www.geni.com/projects/2nd-Michigan-Cavalry-USA-US-Civil-War/4164

Annual Report (Adj. General), State of Michigan, 1864 (link)

Annual Report of the Adjutant General of the State of Michigan for the Year 1864

Source (link)

Annual Report of the Adjutant General of the State of Michigan for the Year 1864
http://bit.ly/GoogleBooks-AnnualRept-Michigan1864

The Military Records of Michigan by the D.A.R., 1920 (link)

The Military Records of Michigan (source)

The Military Records of Michigan
D.A.R., 1920
https://babel.hathitrust.org/cgi/pt?id=mdp.39015071548740;view=2up;seq=4

Second Michigan Cavalry (History, link)

Second Michigan Cavalry in Portraits and Biographies
https://archive.org/stream/bad0928.0001.001.umich.edu#page/70/mode/2up
Internet Archives

Hillsdale College, Hillsdale County, Michigan in Portraits and Biographies
http://bit.ly/HillsdaleCollege-in-Portraits-and-Biographies-181

Google Books (short URL)

Robert McDougall, 2nd Michigan Cavalry.
http://bit.ly/RobertMcDougall-of-HillsdaleMichigan-Portraits-and-Biographies-671
Google Books (short URL)

History of Calhoun County, Michigan (link to Second Michigan section)

History of Calhoun County, Michigan

History of Calhoun County, Michigan; a narrative account of its historical progress, its people, and its principal interests
by Hon Washington Gardner ...
Author: Gardner, Washington, ed. 1845-1928,
Collection: Michigan County Histories and Atlases

http://quod.lib.umich.edu/m/micounty/bad0867.0001.001/589?q1=stampfler&view=image&size=100

Record of service of Michigan volunteers in the Civil War, 1861-1865 (link to series)

Record of service of Michigan volunteers in the civil war, 1861-1865. 

Record of Service of Michigan Volunteers (PDF online)
Pub. by authority of the Senate and House of representatives of the Michigan Legislature under the direction of Brig. Gen. Geo. H. Brown, adjutant general.

Hathitrust has many more volumes than the ones selected below. My links may provide clues. For instance, Volumes 1-30 are Michigan Infantry units; Volume 31 begins the First Michigan Cavalry (etcetera). Besides this series, the site has links to other series. I noticed a volume somewhere on the Michigan Pioneers, and there may be volumes on the drafted regiments).

INFANTRY

Volume 01, First Michigan Infantry

Volume 22, Twenty-Second Michigan Infantry

Volume 30, Thirtieth Michigan Infantry

CAVALRY

Volume 31, First Michigan Cavalry

Volume 32, Second Michigan Cavalry

Volume 36, Sixth Michigan Cavalry

https://catalog.hathitrust.org/Record/003931700


This resource has brief summaries of the records of Michigan soldiers in the Civil War, typically including, but not limited to, name, rank, company and regiment, branch of service, date of enlistment, age at enlistment, promotions, and date of discharge or date of death. It is both searchable and browseable, but it is most helpful to know the branch of service and regiment of the soldier, if browsing. The particular source I used to search for soldiers in the Second Michigan Cavalry was volume 32 in the above series, two copies made available by the University of Michigan, and another, by Michigan State University. This is one of the University of Michigan copies, with link):

Record of Service of Michigan Volunteers In the Civil War, 1861-1865, Vol. 32. Michigan, Adjutant-General’s Dept. (Kalamazoo, Mich.: Ihling bros. & Everard, printers, 190-), Hathitrust Digital Library, babel.hathitrust.org.

Link to Volume 32 (not sure it will work, no permanent link was given): 

https://babel.hathitrust.org/cgi/pt?id=mdp.39015071160736&view=2up&seq=8


The same resource is searchable on Ancestry.com, though I noticed that the search mechanism doesn't seem to retrieve results well with the soldier's given name--just the surname. This link is to a catalog of all volumes in the series:

https://www.ancestry.com/search/collections/genealogy-glh20944174/

History of the Michigan Organizations at Chickamauga, Chattanooga, and Missionary Ridge, 1863 (link to source)

History of Michigan Organizations at Chickamauga, Chattanooga, and Missionary Ridge, 1863


Author: Charles E. Belknap

Published: Lansing: Robert Smith Printing Co., 1899.

URL: https://archive.org/details/02351883.3225.emory.edu

Crediting Emory University for making this available via Archive.org.

Henry Albert Potter Collection, via Seeking Michigan (selected links)

Henry Albert Potter Diary (if deep link works)
Seeking Michigan has the document images, but seems to have removed the links for browsing the Civil War database. Path for this link: from the main page, search "Henry Albert Potter."
http://seekingmichigan.contentdm.oclc.org/cdm/search/searchterm/henry%20albert%20potter/order/nosort

Seeking Michigan: 
Search Result for "Henry Albert Potter Diary"
http://bit.ly/Henry-Albert-Potter-Diary-srch

Henry Albert Potter Diary: Link to the Entry about Sgt. Crotty's Horse.
http://seekingmichigan.contentdm.oclc.org/cdm/ref/collection/p129401coll15/id/5563

Henry Albert Potter Diary, Feb. 8, 1864
General Thomas and Cleveland, Tennessee, entry
http://bit.ly/SeekingMichigan-Henry-Albert-Potter-Diary-Feb-8-1864

1863-12-24 Letter from Henry Albert Potter
December 24, 1863 Potter Letter Page 1
MS 91-480 Henry Albert Potter Collection
http://seekingmichigan.contentdm.oclc.org/cdm/ref/collection/p129401coll15/id/2032
http://seekingmichigan.contentdm.oclc.org/cdm/compoundobject/collection/p129401coll15/id/2032/rec/10

Webpage of Potter's Descendant
This person's mother donated the diaries; he has additional information and some transcripts.

http://freepages.genealogy.rootsweb.ancestry.com/~mruddy/Chicka.htm

This is a great Civil War Collection, including digitized images of original letters and diaries of Lieutenant Henry Albert Potter of the the 4th Michigan Cavalry (B, E, H).

For my project, it is particularly important because he was at Charleston, Tennessee, in 1864, and has written first-hand accounts of the camp and courier duty there, including a mention of a skirmish at Cleveland, Tennessee. He is associated with Col. Eli Long's division. He has a wonderful description of a North Georgia thunderstorm (at Villanow).

The Seeking Michigan site is not quite as easy to navigate since it removed the main link to the Civil War Documents collection, but the site has a search tool. The Potter collection has many more items than the selected ones I've listed here.

A Hundred Battles in the West (Thatcher) (link)

A Hundred Battles in the West: St. Louis to Atlanta, 1861-1865. The Second Michigan Cavalry
Full-Text Version, at Archive.org
https://archive.org/details/ahundredbattles00thatrich


Detailed, first-hand story of the organization, movements, actions, and experiences of the Second Michigan Cavalry Vols, by Marshall P. Thatcher (link to digitized version of book, via Archive.org). This book is central to my story, so I check it often. For anyone working on The Army of the Ohio, The Army of the Cumberland, the Battles of Boonville, The Atlanta Campaign, and similar subjects, it's a very good source. For anyone working on Michigan Cavalry units, specifically, the Second Michigan Volunteer Cavalry, I think it's an indispensable source. It's also just a good story, for anyone who likes Civil War non-fiction. The author was a soldier in the Second Michigan.

Pioneer Brigade, Michigan Pioneers (links) and First Michigan Engineers

Pioneer Brigade: Rosecrans' Hand-Picked Engineers
Geoffrey L. Blankenmeyer's page
http://www.thecivilwargroup.com/pioneer.html


The Liberty Rifles: Pioneer Brigade 
Cody J. Harding's page
http://www.libertyrifles.org/research/pioneerbrigade.html

Links to nice article about Rosecrans' famous Pioneer Brigade (hand-picked engineers).

The Pioneers were to travel with the advance of the army, while the 1st Michigan Engineers, a similarly hand-picked unit of engineers, would focus on communications, supply lines, etc. One mention of the First Michigan Engineers is in the vignette of "an unidentified orderly seargeant, 21st Michigan," in Echoes of Battle: The Struggle for Chattanooga (Baumgartner and Strayer, 1996), which contains a bare mention of Private Adrian Musty of Co. D, 1st Mich. Engineers, assisting in the crossing of the Tennessee River at Brown's Ferry in October 1863:

[Quote from Echoes of Battle, 192]:

"One pontoon in midstream was struck by Confederate Artillery fire, the shell penetrating the boat's bottom and letting in a gush of water. Private Adrian Musty of Company D, 1st Michigan Engineers, quickly pulled off his blouse and cap, stuffed them into the hole and prevented the boat from sinking until it could be repaired."(192).

Baumgartner, Richard A. and Larry M. Strayer, Echoes of Battle: The Struggle for Chattanooga, (Huntington: Blue Acorn Press, 1996), 192 (in vignette/caption of An unidentified orderly sergeant, 21st Michigan).
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Louis A. Simmons, in The History of the 84th Reg't Ill. Vols., mentions the Pioneer Brigade, and says that the pontoon bridge at Bridgeport, Alabama, was actually two bridges, because the Tennessee River is there divided by an island (pg. 77).
Pontoon Bridge at Bridgeport, Alabama
http://bit.ly/84th-Ill-Vols-p77-pontoons-at-Bridgeport-AL