3rd Michigan Infantry Regiment (Reorganized) explained

Unit Name:	3rd Michigan Infantry Regiment (Reorganized)
Dates:	August 24, 1864, to June 10, 1865
Country:	United States
Allegiance:	Union
Branch:	Infantry

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

Service

The 3rd Michigan Infantry was organized at Adrian, Pontiac, and Grand Rapids, Michigan, and mustered into Federal service between August 24, 1864, and October 12, 1864. The new regiment assumed the number of the original 3rd Michigan that had been discharged at the completion of their enlistment on June 10, 1864.

The regiment was mustered out on June 10, 1865.

Total strength and casualties

The regiment suffered 1 enlisted man who were killed in action or mortally wounded and 1 officers and 163 enlisted men who died of disease, for a total of 165 fatalities.^[1]

Commanders

• Colonel Moses Barrett Houghton

See also

• 3rd Michigan Volunteer Infantry Regiment
• List of Michigan Civil War Units
• Michigan in the American Civil War

References

• The Civil War Archive

Notes and References

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.