26th_Michigan_Volunteer_Infantry_Regiment

26th Michigan Infantry Regiment

26th Michigan Infantry Regiment

Military unit

The 26th Michigan Infantry Regiment was an infantry regiment that served in the Union Army during the American Civil War.

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Service

The 26th Michigan Infantry was mustered into Federal service at Jackson, Michigan, on December 12, 1862. The regiment participated in the suppression of the New York Draft Riots in July, 1863.

The regiment was mustered out of service on June 4, 1865.

Total strength and casualties

The regiment suffered three officers and 115 enlisted men killed in action or mortally wounded and three officers and 159 enlisted men who died of disease, for a total of 280 fatalities.[1]

Commanders

  • Colonel Judson S. Farrar
  • Colonel Henry Horatio Wells

See also

Notes

  1. [1]
    http://www.civilwararchive.com/Unreghst/unmiinf3.htm#26th 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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