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KEGIMENTAL LOSSES IN THE CIVIL WAR.

THIRD MICHIGAN INFANTRY. BERRY'S BRIGADE — BIRNEY'S DIVISION — THIRD CORPS.

(1) COL. DANIEL McCONNELL.

(2) COL. STEPHEN G. CHAMPLIN • BRIG.-GEN.

(3) COL. BYRON R. PIERCE; BVT. MAJOR-GEN.

(4) COL. MOSES B. HOUGHTON ; BVT. BRIG.-GEN.

Total of killed and wounded

BATTLES. K. &M. W

William sburg,Va i

Fair Oaks, Va 46

Oak Grove, Va i

Glendale, Va i

Malvern Hill, Va. , i

Manassas, Va 40

Chantilly, Va i

Fredericksburg, Va 2

158 killed = 127 per cent 551 . died in Confederate prisons (previously included), 17.

BATTLES. K. & M. W.

Chancellorsville, Va 11

Gettysburg, Pa i o

Mine Run, Va 5

Wilderness, Va 30

Spotsylvania, Va 7

North Anna, Va i

Cold Harbor, Va i

Present, also, at Blackburn's Ford; First Bull Run Heights ; Auburn ; Kelly's Ford ; Po River.

Yorktown; Savage Station ; Peach Orchard ; Wapping

NOTES. — Organized at Grand Rapids, May 15, 1861, mustered into the United States service June loth, 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 (30!) 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 361 present for duty on May 3d. In June,

1864, \vhile in the trenches at Cold Harbor the men were ordered home for muster-out.

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