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Civil War
Third Regiment Infantry
Early in the spring the regiment was ordered to Victoria, and was there mustered out of service May 26th, 1866, when it started for Michigan. Marching to Indianola, it took steamer to New Orleans, and thence via the Mississippi river to Cairo, where it took rail to Detroit, arriving there on the 10th of June, when it was paid off and disbanded.
The regiment was engaged at Decatur, Ala., October 28, 29, 30, 1864; Murfreesboro, Tenn.,
November 30 to December 20, 1864.
The enrollment of this regiment was 1, 109, while its losses were 158, being one man died of wounds and one officer, and 156 men of disease, a large loss compared with the time of service, but owing much to severe marching in Texas, under a hot sun, and then for a time encamped at Green Lake, a most unhealthy point, where much disease prevailed, and where the largest portion of deaths occurred.
American Civil War
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