The Fourth Alabama Painting by Don Troiani

Fourth Brigade, First Division

The 2nd Mihigan Infantry at the first battle of Bull Run

The 2nd Mihigan Infantry at the first battle of Bull Run

Second Michigan Infantry

COLONEL I B RICHARDSON
Commanding the Fourth Brigade, First Division on 21 July, 1861.

LIEUTENANT COLONEL H L CHIPMAN
Appointed captain in the 11th United States Infantry prior to 21 July, 1861.

MAJOR A W WILLIAMS
Commanding regiment on 21 July, 1861, as Colonel I B Richardson was commanding the Fourth Brigade, First Division and Lieutenant Colonel H L Chapman was appointed captain in the 11th United States Infantry.

Company A Scott Guard: CAPT. L DILLMAN
Company B Hudson Artillery: CAPT. R A BEACH
Company C Battle Creek Artillery: CAPT. C BYINGTON
Company D Adrian Guard: CAPT. W HUMPHREY
Company E Niles Company: CAPT. R BRETHSCHNEIDER
First Lieutenant B Bromnell commanding on 21 July, 1861, as Captain R Brethschneider was assigned to command a provisional light infantry battalion. (See Brethschneider's Light Battalion Infantry)
Company F Flint Union Greys: CAPT. W R MORSE
Company G Constantine Union Guard: CAPT. J A LAWSON
Company H East Saginaw Guard: CAPT. W L WHIPPLE
Company I Kalamazoo Light Guard No.1: CAPT. D MAY
Company K Kalamazoo Blair Guard No. 2: CAPT. C S MAY

Sources

"With the exception of the Kalamazoo (No.2) and Niles, the regiment was made up of the uniformed militia companies, and all were recruited and organised at the places named."

"The regiment, although not actually enaged at Bull Run, had the honor, together with the Third Michigan, of covering the retreat from the disaterous field."

Michigan in the war, compiled by J Robertson, Adjutant General

Record of service of Michigan volunteers in the civil war, 1861–1865, Volume 2, by Aaron T Bliss

Recollections of the Bull Run campaign after twenty-seven years. A paper read before Michigan commandery of the Military Order of the Loyal Legion of the United States, February 1st, 1887, by companion Henry F Lyster, M D (Formerly Assistant Surgeon 2nd Regiment Michigan Infantry, and Surgeon 5th Michigan Infantry and Acting Medical Director 3rd Corps, Army of the Potomac)

The Union army: a history of military affairs in the loyal states 1861–65, records of the regiments in the Union army, cyclopedia of battles, memoirs of commanders and soldiers, Volume 3, New Jersey, Indiana, Illinois and Michigan

Notes

The 2nd Michigan Infantry wasrecruited and called into service as a three months' regiment but on instructions from the War Department was reorganised and mustered into service on 25 May, 1861 at Fort Wayne, Detroit, the first three year regiment from Michigan. The regiment was mustered out on 28 July, 1865, at Kalorama Park, Washington D C.

The Military District of the Potomac was established on 25 July, 1861 by consolidating the Military District of Washington and the Department of Northeastern Virginia and redesignated the Department of the Potomac on 15 August, 1861. The 2nd Michigan Infantry was assigned to Brigadier General I Richardson's brigade, Army of the Potomac, in August 1861.

Report

OFFICIAL REPORT NO.28: Series I, Volume 2 (S# 2), Chapter IX, pp. 373–377
Colonel I B Richardson, Second Michigan Infantry, commanding Fourth Brigade, First Division