1st Michigan Engineers and Mechanics Regiment

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1st Michigan Engineers and Mechanics Regiment
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Engineers and infantry busy at the Elk River Bridge, Tennessee, providing rail passage for the Union troops
ActiveOctober 29, 1861, to September 22, 1865
Country United States
Allegiance Union
Branch Engineer
Engagements Battle of Mill Springs (Companies D, F, G)
Siege of Corinth
Battle of Perryville
Battle of Bentonville

The 1st Michigan Engineers and Mechanics Regiment was an engineer regiment that served in the Union Army during the American Civil War. There were only ten other similar regiments in the Union Army. The Michigan unit was one of three engineering regiments raised in 1861, the other two being Missouri (August 1861) and New York (September 1861). Engineering regiments are often left off of many Order of Battles, but their contribution to campaigns were vital from a logistics point of view; repairing/building railroads, bridges and blockhouses; and destroying enemy communication lines, railroads and bridges. Engineering units like the First Michigan were often caught up in attacks from enemy guerrillas and cavalry skirmishes.

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Service

The 1st Michigan Engineers was organized at Marshall, Michigan and mustered into service on October 29, 1861. They rendezvoused at Camp Owen on the Calhoun County fairgrounds in early October.

The regiment was mustered out on September 22, 1865.

Total strength and casualties

Over its existence, the regiment carried a total of 2962 men on its muster rolls. [1] The regiment lost 1 officer and 12 enlisted men killed in action or mortally wounded, and 351 enlisted men who died of disease, for a total of 364 fatalities. [2]

At the Battle of Perryville (October 1862), the First Michigan had at least ten wounded and one missing. At Lavergne, Tennessee; just prior to the Battle of Murfreesboro, the First Michigan had one killed, five wounded, four POWs and one missing. The 1st Michigan saw two men killed, nine wounded, and two missing at the Battle of Murfreesboro (early January 1863). The unit was active all over middle Tennessee, including Columbia, Spring Hill, Franklin, Brentwood and Nashville from 1862 - 1864, building and repairing railroads, bridges, blockhouses, etc. The Franklin-Nashville Campaign was costly to the First Michigan Engineers, losing over 30 men as POWs.

The unit also participated in Sherman's March to the Sea and at the Battle of Bentonville.

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Notes

  1. ↑ {{cite August 1862 assignments included maintaining the Louisville and Nashville Railroad in Tennessee. Pvt. Lewis Hervey was killed Aug. 29,1862 while inspecting the railroad after battles at Pilot Knob, Saundersville, Drake’s Creek and Monscoe’s (Mansker’s) Creek on Aug 20, 1861, between detachments of the 50th Indiana and Morgan’s Kentucky Calvary. A hand drawn map, presumed drawn by a colleague, allowed his grave to be found. His permanent burial is in The Nashville National Cemetery, plot 10183web|url=http://www.michiganinthewar.org/rosters.htm%7Ctitle=Michigan Regimental Rosters|access-date=2007-07-04|url-status=dead|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20070704205245/http://www.michiganinthewar.org/rosters.htm%7Carchive-date=2007-07-04}} Michigan in the Civil War website, retrieved July 4, 2007
  2. ↑ http://www.civilwararchive.com/Unreghst/unmiarty.htm The Civil War Archive website after Dyer, Frederick Henry. A Compendium of the War of the Rebellion. 3 vols. New York: Thomas Yoseloff, 1959. Retrieved July 4, 2007.
  3. ↑ http://www.michiganinthewar.org/engineers/1enga.htm Archived 2007-07-21 at the Wayback Machine Michigan in the Civil War website, retrieved July 4, 2007)
  4. ↑ Record of Service of Michigan Volunteers in the Civil War, 1904, vol. 43, p. 230

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