Michigan History: Military & Unit Histories

1st Michigan Colored Infantry Regiment

• Lieutenant William E. Sleight and the 102nd regiment, U.S. colored infantry, in the Civil War
• Negroes in Michigan during the Civil War.

1st Michigan Sharpshooters Regiment

• These men have seen hard service : the First Michigan Sharpshooters in the Civil War

2nd Michigan Infantry Regiment

• Civil War letters of Perry Mayo
• For country, cause & leader : the Civil War journal of Charles B. Haydon

3rd Michigan Infantry Regiment

• Civil War diary and biography of George W. Bailey
• Civil War letters [of Charles H. Church]

4th Michigan Infantry Regiment

• 4th Michigan Infantry in the Civil War

6th Michigan Infantry Regiment

• Among the cotton thieves
• Soldier's life; the Civil War experiences of Ben C. Johnson

8th Michigan Infantry Regiment

• Diary of Captain Ralph Ely of the Eighth Michigan Infantry : with the wandering regiment

10th Michigan Infantry Regiment

• With Sherman to the sea; a drummer's story of the Civil War

11th Michigan Infantry Regiment

• Diary of Ira Gillaspie of the Eleventh Michigan Infantry : from Michigan to Murfreesboro
• When gallantry was commonplace : the history of the Michigan Eleventh Volunteer Infantry, 1861-1864

12th Michigan Infantry Regiment

• Ewing family Civil War letters

13th Michigan Infantry Regiment

• Slavery in the Clover Bottoms : John McCline's narrative of his life during slavery and the Civil War

19th Michigan Infantry Regiment

• I hope to do my country service : the Civil War letters of John Bennitt, M.D., surgeon, 19th Michigan Infantry
• Mine eyes have seen the glory : combat diaries of Union Sergeant Hamlin Alexander Coe
• They died to make men free : a history of the 19th Michigan Infantry in the Civil War

20th Michigan Infantry Regiment

• Ewing family Civil War letters

24th Michigan Infantry Regiment

• Dear Sarah : letters home from a soldier of the Iron Brigade
• History of the Twenty-fourth Michigan of the Iron brigade, known as the Detroit and Wayne County Regiment
• Twenty-fourth Michigan of the Iron Brigade

25th Michigan Infantry Regiment

• Civil War letters of Johannes Van Lente
• Story of the Twenty-fifth Michigan

ARTILLERY

1st Michigan Artillery Regiment

• To the sound of musketry and tap of the drum : a history of Michigan's Battery D through the letters of artificer Harold J. Bartlett, 1861-1864

• Under Custer's command : the Civil War journal of James Henry Avery

CAVALRY

Michigan Cavalry Brigade

• Custer and his wolverines : the Michigan Cavalry Brigade, 1861-1865

2nd Michigan Cavalry Regiment

• Hundred battles in the West, St. Louis to Atlanta, 1861-65. The Second Michigan cavalry,

5th Michigan Cavalry Regiment

• Under Custer's command : the Civil War journal of James Henry Avery

6th Michigan Cavalry Regiment

• One of Custer's Wolverines : the Civil War letters of Brevet Brigadier General James H. Kidd, 6th Michigan Cavalry
• Personal recollections of a cavalryman with Custer's Michigan cavalry brigade in the civil war,

7th Michigan Cavalry Regiment

• Personal and historical sketches and facial history of and by members of the Seventh regiment Michigan volunteer cavalry, 1862-1865

ENGINEERS

1st Michigan Engineers and Mechanics Regiment

• History of the services of the First Regiment Michigan Engineers and Mechanics during the Civil War, 1861-1865
• My brave Mechanics : the First Michigan Engineers and their Civil War