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Crofoot, IsaiahDescription
Image of Holland MI resident Isaiah Crofoot's record of service in the "Record of Service of Michigan Volunteers in the Civil War, Vol. 25". Entry is split, most of it at bottom of first page, rest on very top of second.History
Isaiah Crofoot was born in 1836. On August 14th, 1862, he enlisted with the 25th Michigan Infantry, Co. I. Sadly, Isaiah died of disease in Louisville Kentucky on May 10th, 1863. He is interred in Cave Hill National Cemetery, and his name can be found on the Soldier's Monument in Pilgrim Home Cemetery.The 25th Michigan Infantry Company I was largely made up of Dutch immigrants from Holland, Michigan and its surrounding areas. The company is most famous for its involvement in the Battle at Tebb's Bend, where roughly 200 Union soldiers repulsed an attack by the Confederate general John Hunt Morgan and his raiders. The 25th Infantry was also involved in several campaigns in Eastern Tennessee and Sherman's March to the Sea, where the 25th fought at Tunnel Hill, Rocky Face Ridge, Resaca, Cassville, Kingston, Allatoona, Pine Mountain, Lost Mountain, and Kenesaw. The regiment also took part in the siege of Atlanta. The regiment was mustered out on June 24th, 1865.
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