Howland's Company Michigan Volunteer Engineers

Infobox Military Unit
unit_name= Howland's Company, Michigan Volunteer Engineers


caption=Michigan state flag
dates= September 16, 1861 to January 8, 1862
country= United States
allegiance= Union
branch= Engineer
equipment=
battles=

Howland's Company, or the Battle Creek Engineer Corps, was an engineer company that served in the Union Army during the American Civil War.

ervice

The company was organized at Battle Creek, Michigan and organized on September 16, 1861, and mustered into Federal service on October 9, 1861. However, when Major General H.W. Halleck took command of the Department of Missouri, he decided that Howland's Company did not meet Federal organizational standards. Upon notification of this fact, the company voted to disband and were subsequently mustered out of Federal service on January 8, 1862.

Total strength and casualties

Over its existence, the regiment carried a total of 53 men on its muster rolls.http://www.michiganinthewar.org/rosters.htm Michigan in the Civil War website, retrieved July 4, 2007)

Commanders

*Captain Edwin P. Howlandhttp://www.michiganinthewar.org/engineers/howland.htm Michigan in the Civil War website, retrieved July 5, 2007)

ee also

*List of Michigan Civil War Units
*Michigan in the American Civil War

Notes

References

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