1st Michigan Infantry Regiment (3 years)

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1st Michigan Infantry Regiment
Flag of Michigan.svg
Michigan state flag
ActiveSeptember 16, 1861 – July 19, 1865
Country United States
Allegiance Union
Branch Infantry
Size1,329
Engagements American Civil War
Lieutenant Francis Raymond Rice of Co. A and Co. F, 1st Michigan Infantry Regiment, before being wounded at Fredericksburg on December 13, 1862, and having a leg amputated. From the Liljenquist Family Collection of Civil War Photographs, Prints and Photographs Division, Library of Congress Lieutenant Francis Raymond Rice of Co. A and Co. F, 1st Michigan Infantry Regiment in uniform LCCN2016646222.jpg
Lieutenant Francis Raymond Rice of Co. A and Co. F, 1st Michigan Infantry Regiment, before being wounded at Fredericksburg on December 13, 1862, and having a leg amputated. From the Liljenquist Family Collection of Civil War Photographs, Prints and Photographs Division, Library of Congress

The 1st Michigan Infantry Regiment was an infantry regiment that served in the Union Army during the American Civil War.

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Service

The 1st Michigan Infantry was organized at Detroit, Michigan and mustered into Federal service for a three-year enlistment on September 16, 1861. This regiment retained the number of the original 1st Michigan raised for a three-month enlistment.

The regiment was mustered out on July 19, 1865.

Total strength and casualties

The regiment suffered 15 officers and 172 enlisted men killed in action or mortally wounded and 1 officer and 149 enlisted men who died of disease, for a total of 337 fatalities. [1]

Commanders

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Notes

  1. http://www.civilwararchive.com/Unreghst/unmiinf1.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.

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