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Source 160 – Website File of Civil War Enlistees, Lansing MI

February 15, 2017 by Admin

Record – First Michigan Engineers & Mechanics (1861-1865)
URL: http://www.migenweb.org/michiganinthewar/engineers/1engi.htm
Thomas, George S. (p. 201)
Enlisted – Company I, Engineers & Mechanics, 15 August 1864, at Grand Rapids, Kent Co., MI., for 1 year, age 36.
Mustered – 15 August 1864. Joined regiment at Atlanta, GA, 02 Sept 1864.
Position – Artificer
Discharged – Washington D.C., 07 June 1865.
Buried – North Star

Note: Sidney S. Thomas and William W. Thomas enlisted on same day at Grand Rapids.

URL: https://babel.hathitrust.org/cgi/pt?id=mdp.39015015346847;view=1up;seq=223
Book: Record of Service of Michigan Volunteers in the Civil War, 1861-1865
Page 201 – Engineers & Mechanics
Thomas, George S., North Star. Enlisted in Company I, Engineers and Mechanics, August 15, 1864, at Grand Rapids, for 1 year, age 36. Mustered August 15, 1864. Joined regiment at Atlanta, GA, September 2, 1864. Artificer. Discharged at Washington, D.C., June 7, 1863.

Record – First and Second U.S. Sharpshooters, Company D, Western Sharpshooters (1861-1865)
Nelson, Marcus S. (p. 175)
Enlisted – Company D, Western Sharpshooters, 10 March 1862, at Dowagiac, MI
Mustered – 12 March 1862
Killed in Action – 04 October 1862, Corinth, MS
Buried – Arlington

Draper, Willard E. (p. 171) (see Source 10)
Enlisted – Company D, Western Sharpshooters, 11 March 1862, at Dowagiac, MI
Mustered – 26 March 1862
Discharged – at expiration of term of service at Goldsboro, NC, 04 April 1865
Died – 14 February 1903, at Detroit, MI
Buried –

Branch, Elam (Vol. 45, p. 116)
Enlisted – Company C, 70th New York Infantry, 30 April 1861, at Paw Paw for 3 years
Mustered – 21 June 1861
Promoted Corporal
Discharged – 24 July 1862, at Detroit, MI, on account of wounds received in action
Buried – Lawrence

Branch, Elijah C. (Vol 42, p. 132)
Enlisted – Battlion G, 1st Lt. Artillery
Mustered –
Discharged –
Died –
Buried –

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