3rd Michigan Volunteer Infantry Regiment

Infobox Military Unit
unit_name= 3rd Regiment Michigan Volunteer Infantry


caption=Michigan state flag
dates= May 21, 1861 to June 10, 1864
country= United States
allegiance= Union
branch= Infantry
equipment=
battles= First Battle of Bull Run
Peninsular Campaign
Second Battle of Bull Run
Battle of Chantilly
Battle of Antietam
Battle of Fredericksburg
Battle of Chancellorsville
Battle of Gettysburg
Battle of the Wilderness
Battle of Cold Harbor

The 3rd Regiment Michigan Volunteer Infantry was an infantry regiment that served in the Union Army during the American Civil War.

ervice

The 3rd Michigan Infantry was organized at Grand Rapids, Michigan, by Francis William Kellogg, who was named as its first colonel. The men were mustered into state service on May 21, 1861, and later mustered into Federal service for a three-year enlistment on June 10, 1861.

The regiment was mustered out on June 10, 1864. The regiment's veterans and recruits were assigned to the 5th Michigan Volunteer Infantry Regiment.

Total strength and casualties

The regiment suffered 4 officers and 154 enlistedmen who were killed in action or motally wounded and 2 officers and 89 enlisted men who died of disease, for a total of 249 fatalities. [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.]

Commanders

*Colonel Francis William Kellogg

ee also

* [http://www.oldthirdmichigan.org Third Michigan Infantry Research Project]
*List of Michigan Civil War Units
*Michigan in the American Civil War

Notes

References

* [http://www.civilwararchive.com/unionmi.htm The Civil War Archive]