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James H. Perry, CO H, 9th Michigan Infantry, GAR and Wife Mary E. Perry, Lake Odessa, Michigan 48849

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James H. Perry, CO H, 9th Michigan 48849 Infantry, GAR, and Wife Mary E. Perry, Lake Odessa, Michigan Cemetery (GPS N42°46.518, W085°07.439)

The Ninth Michigan Infantry was organized at Fort Wayne, near Detroit, and was mustered into the United States service on Oct. 15, 1861, with an enrollment of 913 officers and men. Immediately upon its completion the 9th Michigan was ordered to Kentucky, being one of the first Michigan regiments to report for duty in the Western Department.

In November, 1861, the 9th Infantry was at West Point, Ky., where it assisted in fortifying Muldraugh Hill, building roads and bridges. Detachments of the Ninth Michigan Infantry were sent to Elizabethtown, Ky. and other places surrounding West Point, Ky., where their presence was necessary to gain information, while protecting the countryside from marauding Confederate forces. Colonel W. W. Duffield, having been assigned the 23rd Brigade, Army of the Cumberland, Lieutenant Colonel John J. Parkhurst assumed command of the Ninth and assembling his Regiment at West Point, where it embarked on the Ohio River, proceeding to Nashville, arriving there on Jan. 23, 1862.

The 9th Michigan Infantry Regiment participated on the march through Kentucky after the Confederate General John Morgan, assisting the 23rd Brigade in driving the notorious raider from the state. In June, the Ninth Infantry formed a part of a force of 9,000 troops under command of General Negley, and then commenced a movement to capture Chattanooga, Tenn.

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