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Sixteenth Michigan Infantry.
Vincent's Brigade —
Griffin's Division--Fifth 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 | 2 | | 2 | | | | 18 |
| Company | A | 1 | 34 | 35 | | 13 | 13 | 176 |
| | B | 2 | 16 | 18 | | 10 | 10 | 174 |
| | C | 2 | 19 | 21 | | 19 | 19 | 188 |
| | D | 1 | 29 | 30 | | 13 | 13 | 187 |
| | E | | 19 | 19 | | 8 | 8 | 186 |
| | F | 1 | 16 | 17 | | 19 | 19 | 148 |
| | G | | 22 | 22 | | 14 | 14 | 175 |
| | H | | 25 | 25 | | 11 | 11 | 154 |
| | I | 2 | 29 | 31 | | 9 | 9 | 194 |
| | K | 1 | 12 | 13 | | 10 | 10 | 139 |
| | L | | 8 | 8 | | 10 | 10 | 104 |
| | M | | 6 | 6 | | 7 | 7 | 86 |
| Totals | 12 | 235 | 247 | | 143 | 143 | 1,929 |
247 killed==12.8 per cent.
Total of killed and wounded, 870; died in Confederate prisons (previously included), 15.
| battles. | K. & M. W. | battles. | K. & M. W. |
| Hanover Court House, Va. | 1 | Spotsylvania, Va. | 14 |
| Gaines's Mill, Va. | 78 | North Anna, Va. | 3 |
| Glendale, Va. | 1 | Totopotomoy, Va. | 4 |
| Malvern Hill, Va. | 10 | Bethesda Church, Va. | 3 |
| Manassas, Va. | 25 | Siege of Petersburg, Va. | 22 |
| Fredericksburg, Va. | 11 | Weldon Railroad, Va. | 5 |
| Chancellorsville, Va. | 1 | Peebles's Farm, Va. | 18 |
| Middleburg, Va. | 1 | Dabney's Mills, Va. | 9 |
| Gettysburg, Pa. | 29 | Gravelly Run, Va. | 3 |
| Wilderness, Va. | 7 | Five Forks, Va. | 2 |
Present, also, at
Yorktown;
Mechanicsville;
White Oak Swamp;
Antietam; Rappahannock Station;
Mine Run; Cold Harbor;
Hatcher's Run; White Oak Road;
Appomattox.
notes.--Organized originally as “Stockton's Independent regiment,” under authority from the
Secretary of War, but it was soon included in the
State service.
It left the
State on September 6, 1864, with ten companies,--761 officers and men; two companies of sharpshooters joined it later, making twelve companies, one joining in 1862, the other in 1864.
The regiment went into winter quarters at
Hall's Hill, Va., and in March, 1862, moved to the
Peninsula.
It was assigned to the Third Brigade, First Division, Fifth Corps, in which it remained throughout the war; at that time the brigade was commanded by
General Butterfield, and the division by
General Morell.
The regiment suffered a severe loss at
Gaines's Mill, its casualties amounting to 47 killed, 114 wounded, and 53 missing; many of the latter were killed or wounded.
Under command of
Captain Elliott it was hotly engaged at
Manassas, where it lost 16 killed, 64 wounded, and 16 missing, out of 290 engaged.
Colonel Welch was in command at
Gettysburg, where it took part in the historic contest of
Vincent's Brigade for the possession of
Little Round Top, losing in that battle 23 killed, 34 wounded, and 3 missing.
Major Robert T. Elliott was killed at the
Totopotomoy, and
Colonel Welch in the assault at Peebles's Farm.
Welch was killed on the parapet of a redoubt, which he was the first to scale.
