17th Michigan Infantry Regiment

The marker to the 17th Michigan Infantry Regiment is located on Reno Monument Road at the crest of South Mountain. (see map)

From the monument:

Stonewall Regiment

The 17thh Michigan Volunteer Infantry Regiment was among the units of General Ambrose E. Burnside's 9th army corps that were engaged in battle here on September 14, 1862. The fighting began around 9:00 a.m. just south of this site. Around noon a Confederate battery opened fire on the regiment, which was supporting Cook's Massachusetts Battery. The 17th held its position for several hours. At 4:00 p.m. the command ws given for an assault along the entire Union line. The Confederates came out of the woods to meet the charge at a fence line in the middle of the field, then moved back to the stone walls along the crest of the hill. The 17th advanced and captured the stone walls. Of the 500 men of the "Stonewall Regiment" engaged in battle here, 27 were killed and 114 wounded, many mortally.

Bureau of History, Michigan Department of State

Registerd State Site No. 580

Property of the State of Michigan 1986

Erected by
the 17th Michigan Vounteer Infantry Regiment

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