Michigan in the Civil War

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Introduction
Michigan raised more than 90,000 men for the Union. The Michigan regiments included 34 infantry regiments, 11 cavalry regiments, one sharpshooter regiment, one engineer regiment, many smaller independent units, and about 600 men in the Union Navy,

"14,753 Michigan soldiers died in service, roughly 1 of every 6 who served. 4,448 of these deaths were combat deaths while the majority, over 9000, were from disease..."

Michigan Military Units
Most units were numbered, however, some were named. See the table below for lists of the regiments, battalions, batteries, and other units.

The information in the lists of Michigan Military Units comes from the Civil War Soldiers and Sailors web site. That web site also can be searched by the name of a soldier.

Michigan Units by Number or by Name Union Units 1st-9th 10th-30th A to Z Michigan Units by Type of Unit Union Units Infantry Cavalry Artillery Sharp-shooters Colored Troops Unassign- ed Units

Regiments

 * 1st Regiment, Michigan Light Artillery Batteries organized and mustered out at various times


 * 1st Regiment, Engineers and Mechanics, Michigan Organized at: Marshall, Michigan, September 12, 1861. Mustered in: October 29, 1861. Mustered out: September 22, 1865. Discharged at Jackson, Michigan, October 1, 1865.


 * 1st Regiment, Michigan Infantry First organized for 3 months service. Organized at: Fort Wayne, Detroit, Michigan. Mustered into United States service May 1, 1861. Length of service: 3 months. Mustered out: August 7, 1861 at Detroit, Michigan Organized for three year service at: Detroit, Michigan. Mustered in: September 16, 1861. Mustered out July 9, 1865 Jeffersonville, Indiana.


 * 1st Regiment, United States Lancers, Michigan Cavalry Organized at: Detroit, Saginaw and St. John, Michigan November 30, 1861, to February 20, 1862. Mustered out: March 20, 1862.


 * 1st Regiment, Michigan Cavalry Organized at: Detroit, Michigan, August 21 to September 6, 1861. Mustered in: September 13, 1861. Mustered out: March 10, 1866.


 * 1st Regiment, Michigan Sharpshooters Organized at: Kalamazoo and Dearborn, Michigan, April 14 to October 7, 1863. Mustered in: July 7, 1863. Mustered out: July 28, 1865, Washington D. C.


 * 2nd Regiment, Michigan Cavalry Organized at: Detroit, Michigan. Mustered in: October 2, 1861. Mustered out: August 17, 1865.


 * 2nd Regiment, Michigan Infantry Organized at: Detroit, Michigan, May 25, 1861. Length of service: 3 Years. Mustered out: July 29, 1865 at Delaney House, Washington, D. C. and discharged at Detroit, Michigan, August 1, 1865.


 * 3rd Regiment, Michigan Cavalry Organized at: Grand Rapids, Michigan, August 24 to November 28, 1861. Mustered out: February 12, 1866. Discharged at: Jackson, Michigan, March 15, 1866.


 * 3rd Regiment, Michigan Infantry (1st organization) Organized at: Grand Rapids, Michigan. Mustered into state service:   May 21, 1861.  Mustered into United States service: June 10, 1861 at Grand Rapids, Michigan. Non-veterans mustered out: June 10, 1864. Veterans and Recruits transferred to 5th Michigan Infantry June 13, 1864.


 * 3rd Regiment, Michigan Infantry (2nd organization) Organized at: Grand Rapids, Adrian and Pontiac, Michigan, August 24 to October 12, 1864. Mustered in: October 15, 1864. Mustered out: May 26, 1866 at Victoria, Texas. Discharged at: Detroit, Michigan, June 10, 1866.


 * 4th Regiment, Michigan Cavalry Organized at: Detroit, Michigan. Mustered in: August 28, 1862. Mustered out: July 1, 1865.


 * 4th Regiment, Michigan Infantry (1st organization) Organized at: Adrian, Michigan. Mustered in: June 20, 1861. Mustered out: June 30, 1864. Veterans and Recruits transferred to 1st Michigan Infantry.


 * 4th Regiment, Michigan Infantry (2nd organization) Organized at: Adrian and Hudson, Michigan. Mustered in: October 14, 1864. Mustered out: Houston, Texas, May 26,1866. Discharged: Detroit, Michigan, June 10, 1866.


 * 5th Regiment, Michigan Cavalry Regiment organized at: Detroit, Michigan. Mustered in: August 30, 1862. Mustered out: June 23, 1865. Veterans and Recruits transferred to 1st Michigan Cavalry.


 * 5th Regiment, Michigan Infantry Organized at: Detroit, Michigan. Mustered in: August 28, 1861. Mustered out: July 5, 1865 Jeffersonville, Indiana.


 * 6th Regiment, Michigan Heavy Artillery Organized at: Kalamazoo, Michigan. Mustered in August 20, 1861. Mustered out: August 20, 1865. Discharged at: Jackson, Michigan, September 5, 1865.


 * 6th Regiment, Michigan Cavalry Organized at: Grand Rapids, Michigan, May 28 to October 13, 1862. Mustered in: October 13, 1862. Ordered to rejoin Regiment in Army of the Potomac April 25, and joined May 3, 1864. Consolidated with 1st Michigan Cavalry November 7, 1865.


 * 7th Regiment, Michigan Cavalry Organized at Grand Rapids, Michigan, October, 1862, to June, 1863. Regiment mustered out: December 15, 1865. Veterans and Recruits transferred to 1st Michigan Cavalry.


 * 7th Regiment, Michigan Infantry Organized at: Monroe, Michigan. Mustered in: August 22, 1861. Mustered out: July 5, 1865.


 * 8th Regiment, Michigan Cavalry Organized at: Mt. Clemens, Michigan, December 30, 1862 to May 2, 1863. Mustered out at: Nashville, Tennessee, September 22, 1865.


 * 8th Regiment, Michigan Infantry Regiment organized at: Grand Rapids and at Fort Wayne, Detroit, Michigan. Mustered in: September 23, 1861. Mustered out: July 30, 1865 Washington, D.C.


 * 9th Regiment, Michigan Cavalry Organized at: Coldwater, Michigan, January 8 to May 19, 1863. Mustered out: July 21, 1865 Concord, North Carolina.


 * 9th Regiment, Michigan Infantry Organized at: Detroit Michigan. Mustered in: October 15, 1861. Mustered out: September 15, 1865. Discharged at: Detroit, Michigan, September 26, 1865.


 * 10th Regiment, Michigan Cavalry Organized at: Grand Rapids, Michigan, September 18 to November 23, 1863. Mustered in: November 18, 1863. Mustered out: November 11, 1865 West Tennessee.


 * 10th Regiment, Michigan Infantry Organized at: Flint, Michigan.  Mustered in: February 6, 1862. Mustered out: July 19, 1865.  Discharged at Jackson, Michigan, August 1, 1865.


 * 11th Regiment, Michigan Cavalry Organized at: Kalamazoo and Detroit, Michigan, October 7 to December 10, 1863. Consolidated with 8th Michigan Cavalry July 20, 1865.


 * 11th Regiment, Michigan Infantry (1st organization) Organized at: White Pigeon, Michigan. Mustered in: September 24, 1861. Mustered out: September 30, 1864.  Recruits formed into a detachment and transferred to 11th Regiment reorganized


 * 11th Regiment, Michigan Infantry (2nd organization) Organized at: Jackson, Michigan, January 4 to February 26, 1865. Mustered out: September 16, 1865 Nashville, Tennessee.


 * 12th Regiment, Michigan Cavalry "Compendium of the War of the Rebellion" by Frederick H. Dyer contains no history for this unit.


 * 12th Regiment, Michigan Infantry Organized at: Niles, Dowagiac and Buchanan, Michigan, December 9, 1861, to March 1, 1862. Mustered in: March 5, 1862. Regiment assembled at Camden and mustered out: February 15, 1866.


 * 13th Regiment, Michigan Infantry Organized at: Kalamazoo, Michigan. Mustered in: January 17, 1862. Mustered out: July 25, 1865.


 * 13th Independent Battery, Michigan Light Artillery Organized at: Grand Rapids, Michigan. Mustered in: January 20, 1864 Mustered out: July 1, 1865 Jackson, Michigan.


 * 14th Regiment, Michigan Infantry Organized at: Ypsilanti and Detroit, Michigan, January 7 to February 18, 1862. Mustered in: February 13, 1862. Mustered out: July 18, 1865


 * 14th Independent Battery, Michigan Light Artillery Organized at: Kalamazoo, Michigan. Mustered in: January 5, 1864. Mustered out: July 1, 1865.


 * 15th Regiment, Michigan Infantry Organized at Detroit, Monroe and Grand Rapids, Michigan, October 16, 1861, to March 13, 1862. Mustered in: March 20, 1862. Mustered out: August 18, 1865.


 * 16th Regiment, Michigan Infantry Organized at: Plymouth and Detroit, Michigan, July to September, 1861. Mustered out: July 8, 1865.


 * 17th Regiment, Michigan Infantry Organized at: Detroit, Michigan, August 8 to 22, 1862. Mustered out: June 3, 1865.


 * 18th Regiment, Michigan Infantry Organized at: Hillsdale, Michigan. Mustered in: August 26, 1862. Mustered out: June 26, 1865 Nashville, Tennessee.


 * 19th Regiment, Michigan Infantry Organized at: Dowagiac, Michigan. Mustered in: September 5, 1862. Mustered out June 10, 1865.


 * 20th Regiment, Michigan Infantry Organized at: Jackson, Michigan, August 15-19, 1862. Mustered out: May 30, 1865.


 * 21st Regiment, Michigan Infantry Organized at: Ionia and Grand Rapids, Michigan. Mustered in: September 9, 1862. Mustered out: June 8, 1865.


 * 22nd Regiment, Michigan Infantry Organized at: Pontiac, Michigan. Mustered in: August 29, 1862. Mustered out at Nashville, Tenn., June 26, 1865.


 * 23rd Regiment, Michigan Infantry Organized at: East Saginaw, Michigan. Mustered in: September 13, 1862. Mustered out: June 28, 1865.


 * 24th Regiment, Michigan Infantry Organized at: Detroit, Michigan. Mustered in: August 15, 1862. Regiment selected as escort at funeral of President Lincoln. Mustered out: June 30, 1865.


 * 25th Regiment, Michigan Infantry Organized at: Kalamazoo, Michigan. Mustered in: September 22, 1862. Mustered out: June 24, 1865.


 * 26th Regiment, Michigan Infantry Organized at: Jackson, Michigan, September 10 to December 12, 1862. Mustered in: December 12, 1862. Mustered out: June 4, 1865.


 * 27th Regiment, Michigan Infantry Organized at: Port Huron, Ovid and Ypsilanti, Michigan. Mustered in: April 10, 1863. Mustered out: July 26, 1865.


 * 28th Regiment, Michigan Infantry Organized at: Kalamazoo and Marshall, Michigan, by consolidation of 28th and 29th Michigan Infantry on October 26, 1864. Mustered out: June 6, 1866.


 * 29th Regiment, Michigan Infantry Organized at: East Saginaw, Michigan. Mustered in: October 3, 1864. Mustered out: September 6. Discharged at Detroit, Michigan, September 12, 1865.


 * 30th Regiment, Michigan Infantry Organized at Detroit, Michigan, for 12 months' service in the State. Mustered in: January 9, 1865. Mustered out: June 30, 1865.


 * Chadwick's Company, Michigan Engineers "Compendium of the War of the Rebellion" by Frederick H. Dyer contains no history for this unit.


 * Chadwick's Engineer Recruits, Michigan Volunteers "Compendium of the War of the Rebellion" by Frederick H. Dyer contains no history for this unit.


 * Chandler Horse Guards Squadron, Michigan Cavalry "Compendium of the War of the Rebellion" by Frederick H. Dyer contains no history for this unit.


 * Hall's Independent Battalion, Michigan Sharpshooters Organized at: Marshall, Michigan, August 27 to November 2, 1864. Attached to 16th Michigan Infantry Consolidated with that Regiment April 10, 1865.


 * Howland's Independent Company, Michigan Engineers Organized at: Battle Creek, Michigan, September 16, 1861. Mustered out: January 8, 1862.


 * Robinson's Company A, Provost Guards, Michigan Infantry "Compendium of the War of the Rebellion" by Frederick H. Dyer contains no history for this unit.


 * Unassigned Michigan Cavalry "Compendium of the War of the Rebellion" by Frederick H. Dyer contains no history for this unit.


 * Unassigned Michigan Infantry "Compendium of the War of the Rebellion" by Frederick H. Dyer contains no history for this unit.


 * Unassigned Michigan Volunteers "Compendium of the War of the Rebellion" by Frederick H. Dyer contains no history for this unit.


 * Unassigned Regiment, Michigan "Compendium of the War of the Rebellion" by Frederick H. Dyer contains no history for this unit.


 * Unassigned Drafted, Michigan "Compendium of the War of the Rebellion" by Frederick H. Dyer contains no history for this unit.


 * Unassigned Michigan "Compendium of the War of the Rebellion" by Frederick H. Dyer contains no history for this unit.


 * Wormer's Company, Stanton Guards, Michigan Infantry Organized at: Detroit, Michigan, May 10, 1862. Mustered out: September 25, 1862.


 * 1st Regiment,Michigan Volunteer Infantry (Colored) Organized at Detroit, Michigan, August, 1863, to February, 1864. Mustered in February 17, 1864 . Mustered out September 30, 1865: Charleston, South Carolina.


 * 1st and 2nd Regiments United States Sharpshooters-Berdan's Sharpshooters Organized: August 1861 to March 1862. Mustered in: 29 November 1861. 1st and 2nd regiment consolidated: 31 December 1864. Discontinued 20 Feb 1865.