Michigan Soldiers and Sailors Index

This is the alphabetical index to the Record of Service of Michigan Volunteers in the Civil War

Available online from the Hathi Trust Digital Library.

Michigan and Coleman C. Vaughan, Alphabetical general index to public library sets of 85,271 names of Michigan soldiers and sailors individual records published under authority of Act 147, Public acts of 1903, and supplemental act 165, Public acts of 1913 (Lansing, Mich.: Wynkoop, Hallenbeck Crawford co., state printers, 1915)

Record of service of Michigan Volunteers in the Civil War

Commonly referred to as the "Brown Books," these 46 Volumes (arranged numerically by regiment) were extracted from the original descriptive rolls held at the Archives of Michigan. Once you have found an entry, more information on a soldier may be available in the original rolls, now available online through Seeking Michigan.

Most of the Volumes have now been made available online through the Hathi Trust Digital Library.

Michigan and George H. Turner, Record of Service of Michigan Volunteers in the Civil War, 1861-1865. (Kalamazoo, Mich.: Ihling bros. & Everard, printers, 1900).

• Volume 1 - First Michigan Infantry
• Volume 2 - Second Michigan Infantry
• Volume 3 - Third Michigan Infantry
• Volume 4 - Fourth Michigan Infantry
• Volume 5 - Fifth Michigan Infantry
• Volume 6 - Sixth Michigan Infantry
• Volume 7 - Seventh Michigan Infantry
• Volume 8 - Eighth Michigan Infantry
• Volume 9 - Ninth Michigan Infantry
• Volume 10 - Tenth Michigan Infantry
• Volume 11 - Eleventh Michigan Infantry
• Volume 12 - Twelvth Michigan Infantry
• Volume 13 - Thirteenth Michigan Infantry
• Volume 14 - Fourteenth Michigan Infantry
• Volume 15 - Fifteenth Michigan Infantry
• Volume 16 - Sixteenth Michigan Infantry
• Volume 17 - Seventeenth Michigan Infantry
• Volume 18 - Eighteenth Michigan Infantry
• Volume 19 - Nineteenth Michigan Infantry
• Volume 20 - Twentieth Michigan Infantry
• Volume 21 - Twenty-First Michigan Infantry
• Volume 22 - Twenty-Second Michigan Infantry
• Volume 23 - Twenty-Third Michigan Infantry
• Volume 24 - Twenty-Fourth Michigan Infantry
• Volume 25 - Twenty-Fifth Michigan Infantry
• Volume 26 - Twenty-Sixth Michigan Infantry
• Volume 27 - Twenty-Seventh Michigan Infantry
• Volume 28 - Twenty-Eighth Michigan Infantry
• Volume 29 - Twenty-Ninth Michigan Infantry
• Volume 30 - Thirtieth Michigan Infantry
• Volume 31 - First Michigan Cavalry
• Volume 32 - SecondMichigan Cavalry
• Volume 33 - Third Michigan Cavalry
• Volume 34 - Fourth Michigan Cavalry
• Volume 35 - Fifth Michigan Cavalry
• Volume 36 - Sixth Michigan Cavalry
• Volume 37 - Seventh Michigan Cavalry
• Volume 38 - Eighth Michigan Cavalry
• Volume 39 - Ninth Michigan Cavalry
• Volume 40 - Tenth Michigan Cavalry
• Volume 41 - Eleventh Michigan Cavalry
• Volume 42 - First Michigan Light Artillery
• Volume 43 - First Michigan Engineers and Mechanics
• Volume 44:
  

  First Michigan Sharpshooters;
  1st & 2nd U.S. Sharpshooters;
  Company D Western Sharpshooters

• Volume 45:
  

  Merrill Horse
  23rd, 37th, 42nd, & 44th Illinois
  Co. C. 70th New York Infantry
  Co. K. 1st New York Cavalry
  47th Ohio Infantry
  1st Michigan Lancers
  Chandler Horse Guards
  Provost Guard
  Miscellaneous

• Volume 46

  First Michigan Colored Infantry
  One Hundred And Second U. S. Colored Infantry
  Third U. S. Colored Cavalry
  Fifth U. S. Colored Heavy Artillery
  Ninth U. S. Colored Heavy Artillery
  Thirteenth U. S. Colored Artillery
  Thirty-First U. S. Colored Infantry
  Thirty-Eighth U. S. Colored Infantry
  Forty-Ninth U. S. Colored Infantry
  Fifty-Third U. S. Colored Infantry
  Fifty-Fourth U. S. Colored Infantry
  Fifty-Fifth U. S. Colored Infantry
  Fifty-Eighth U. S. Colored Infantry
  Sixty-First U. S. Colored Infantry
  One Hundred And Twenty-Third U.S. Colored Infantry
  Captain Powell's Regiment, Colored Infantry

Michigan in the War

Historical information on Michigan's involvement in the Civil War including operations in the state, on the battlefield, and an alphabetical list of officers showing residence, enlistment date, regiment, promotions, and date mustered out.

Available online from the Hathi Trust Digital Library and through Google Books.

Michigan. and Jno. Robertson, Michigan in the War. (Lansing: W. S. George & co., State Printers, 1882).

Michigan in the War (Online)

Created by Civil War enthusiast Don Harvey, Michigan in the War contains a wealth of information on Michigan regiments during the war, transcribed rosters, and burial locations of Michigan Veterans.