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Third Michigan Infantry.
Berry's Brigade —
Birney's Division--Third Corps.
| companies. | killed and died of wounds. | died of disease, accidents, in Prison, &c. | Total Enrollment. |
| Officers. | Men. | Total. | Officers. | Men. | Total. |
| Field and Staff | | | | | | | 18 |
| Company | A | 2 | 15 | 17 | 1 | 5 | 6 | 104 |
| | B | | 14 | 14 | | 10 | 10 | 113 |
| | C | | 13 | 13 | | 9 | 9 | 116 |
| | D | | 12 | 12 | | 10 | 10 | 124 |
| | E | | 12 | 12 | | 8 | 8 | 155 |
| | F | | 20 | 20 | | 3 | 3 | 134 |
| | G | 1 | 19 | 20 | 1 | 7 | 8 | 101 |
| | H | | 17 | 17 | | 7 | 7 | 117 |
| | I | | 13 | 13 | | 17 | 17 | 131 |
| | K | 1 | 19 | 20 | | 13 | 13 | 125 |
| Totals | 4 | 154 | 158 | 2 | 89 | 91 | 1,238 |
158 killed == 12.7 per cent.
Total of killed and wounded 551; died in Confederate prisons (previously included), 17.
| battles. | K. & M. W. | battles. | K. & M. W. |
| Williamsburg, Va. | 1 | Chancellorsville, Va. | 11 |
| Fair Oaks, Va. | 46 | Gettysburg, Pa. | 10 |
| Oak Grove, Va. | 1 | Mine Run, Va. | 5 |
| Glendale, Va. | 1 | Wilderness, Va. | 30 |
| Malvern Hill, Va. | 1 | Spotsylvania, Va. | 7 |
| Manassas, Va. | 40 | North Anna, Va. | 1 |
| Chantilly, Va. | 1 | Cold Harbor, Va. | 1 |
| Fredericksburg, Va. | 2 | | |
Present, also, at Blackburn's Ford;
First Bull Run;
Yorktown; Savage Station;
Peach Orchard; Wapping Heights;
Auburn;
Kelly's Ford;
Po River.
notes.--Organized at
Grand Rapids, May 15, 1861, mustered into the
United States service June 10th, and left the
State June 13, 1861, with 1,040 officers and men. It marched to the field of
First Bull Run, and was present at the affair at Blackburn's Ford.
The regiment encamped during the winter of 1861-2, near
Alexandria, and in March, under command of
Colonel Champlin, sailed for the
Peninsula, where it joined
Berry's (3d) Brigade,
Kearny's (3d) Division, Third Corps.
It was hotly engaged at
Fair Oaks, losing 30 killed, 124 wounded, and 15 missing; total, 169,
Colonel Chaplin being seriously wounded.
The First Division of the Third Corps having been used in forming the Fifth Corps,
Kearny's (3d) Division was re-numbered as the First.
The Third Brigade, under
Colonel Poe of the Second Michigan, was engaged at
Manassas, the casualties in the regiment amounting to 23 killed, 100 wounded, and 16 missing. At
Chancellorsville, it lost 7 killed, 46 wounded, and 20 missing; and at
Gettysburg — then in
DeTrobriand's Brigade — it lost 7 killed, 31 wounded, and 7 missing. In December, 1863, 207 of the regiment reenlisted, and were furloughed for thirty days. Upon the transfer of the Third to the Second Corps, the regiment was placed in
General Alex. Hays's (2d) Brigade,
Birney's (3d) Division, Second Corps, in which command it fought at the
Wilderness and
Spotsylvania; its casualties in these battles amounted to 23 killed, 100 wounded, and 25 missing; a total of 148 out of 36 present for duty on May 3d.
In June, 1864, while in the trenches at Cold Harbor the men were ordered home f)r muster-out.
