The Third Michigan Infantry was mustered in at Grand Rapids and left for the Potomac, 13 Jun 1861, with 1,040 men which was increased with 123 more. It served at Williamsburg, Fair Oaks, Charles City, Cross Roads, Malvern Hill and Bull Run. The loss at Fair Oaks was thirty killed and at Bull Run twenty. The losses of the regiment before Fredericksburg was nine wounded; at Chancellorsville sixty-three men were placed before hors de combat. At Gettysburg, July 2 & 3, its losses were forty-one ment. During the latter part of the year, it took an important part in many skirmishes with a total loss of forty-one men.

During the year 1864, the command enlisted as veterans, received a furlough of thirty days and returning to the front on the years campaign at Ely Ford on 5 May. Its losses for the month was thirty-one killed, 119 wounded and 29 prisoners. An order from the War Department dated 13 June ordered the consolidation of the Third and Fifth, and seven days later, the regiment was mustered out.

On 15 October 1864, the Third Infantry reorganized was mustered into service under Lt. Colonel Moses B. Houghton with 879 officers and men. Toward the close of the year, it served in Tennessee and Alabama. It was engaged in Decatur, Alabama October 28-30 and at Murfreesboro, Tennessee from November 30 to December 20. Having performed its duty well, the command was mustered out and discharged at Detroit 10 June 1865.

There are two separate listings included here.  Some of the names in one list are not in the other so both are included.

List One

3rd Michigan Infantry Company Company K
            NOR refers to the soldier who was not part of the original group 
            which left Grand Rapids on June 13, 1861.
            CAPT Byron R. Pierce
            1st LT Almon Borden
            2nd LT Robert M. Collins
            ALLEN, Norman W.
            ANDERSON, Charles B.
            ANDREWS, Chandler
            ANDRUS, Orlin A.
            BAILEY, Henry W.
            BAIRD, William H.
            BARKER, Frederick L.
            BARNHARD, Simon Peter (NOR)
            BECKWITH, Henry P.
            BLAIN, George W. (NOR)
            BONNEY, Alva
            BOOTH, John O.
            BORDEN, Almon D.
            BROWN, John M.
            BUCK, William
            BUGBY, Edward
            BULLEN, Cyrus N.
            CARPENTER, Benjamin C.
            CARPENTER, Henry W. (NOR)
            CARPENTER, John G.
            CHASE, Elbert
            COCHRAN, George (NOR)
            COON, Jesse
            CRANDALL, Lyman A.
            CRYSLER, John F. (NOR)
            CULVER, George W.
            CULVER, Oliver M.
            DAKE, Judah B. (NOR)
            DAY, Frederick L.
            DIBBLE, Austin P.
            DICKINSON, Wallace W.
            DOYLE, William S. (NOR)
            EADIE, John Jr.
            EDDY, Charles
            EMMONS, David
            FELTON, John (NOR)
            FISH, Sanford
            FOX, Sidney
            FREE, Daniel D. (NOR)
            FREELOVE, James Timothy
            FRENCH, Alexander
            FRENCH, George Jr.
            FURBER, Charles W.
            GAINES, Oscar N.
            GARDNER, Benjamin
            GILBERT, Freeman (NOR)
            GREERMAN, Martin R. (NOR)
            HALSEY, William
            HAMILTON, Virgil M.
            HANCHETT, William
            HANEY, Hiram R. (NOR)
            HANEY, William D.
            HANNA, James
            HANNA, John (NOR)
            HARRIS, William H.
            HAYWARD, James
            HENDERSON, Benjamin C. (NOR)
            HENRY, Charles E.
            HERRINGTON, George (NOR)
            HILL, Alpheus M.
            HILL, Warren G.
            HOWE, Thomas T.
            HURLBUT, Edwin C. (NOR)
            JONES, James C.
            JUDD, Elias H.
            KELLEY, Jonathan
            KERNEHAN, David
            KINGSBURY, Henry E.
            KNAPP, Joseph E.
            KUSIG, Herman
            MALLORY, Edwin H.
            McALISTER, John
            McCLURE, Orange
            McERWAN, William H. (NOR)
            McGERVY, Adam
            McINTIRE, Alexander
            McLENITHAN, Stephen O.
            MEAD, Henry H.
            MILLARD, Mortimer
            MISNER, James H.
            MISNER, Robert
            MOE, Joseph H. "Zeph"
            MONROE, William
            MORRISON, Walter Bacon
            MOSHER, Moses (NOR)
            NEAL, Carlton
            NEILSON, Martin
            NELTHORPE, John Jr. (NOR)
            NEWTON, Orrin K.
            O'DONAHUE, James
            O'NEIL, John D.
            PAGE, Fernando
            PARISH, Heman or Herman (NOR)
            PARSHALL, William H. (NOR)
            PAYNE, Lorenzo W.
            PELTON, Alfred
            PELTON, Andrew J. (NOR)
            PERRY, Oliver H.
            PICKLE, Jacob S.
            PIERCE, Byron Root
            POWELL, William
            POWERS, George W.
            POWLEY, John J.
            PRESTON, Shinar (NOR)
            PRINDLE, William
            PRYOR, Samuel T.
            REED, Cody M.
            REED, Isaac D.
            RICE, Chauncey (NOR)
            ROOT, Daniel S.
            SANDFORD, Charles H. (NOR)
            SHAW, John W. "Jack"
            SLOCUM, Alfred W. (NOR)
            SLY, Robert
            SMITH, Eugene (NOR)
            SMITH, Riley
            SNYDER, Elias A.
            STEARNS, Amos A. (NOR)
            SWEGELS, Ashley O.
            TAIT, George
            TOWER, Reuben
            TURNER, William (NOR)
            VAN WINKLE, Virgil (NOR)
            WAITE, Walter W.
            WHITEFORD, Henry C.
            WHITNEY, Oscar N.
            WHITTAKER, John W.
            WILDER, Edward (NOR)
            WILEY, William B.
            WILKINSON, Warren G.