3rd Michigan Reorganized Men buried in the Michigan Soldiers' Home Cemetery

The Old 3rd served with the Army of the Potomac mainly in Virginia from 1861-1864. The reorganized 3rd Michigan Infantry was a completely separate unit from the original (or "old") 3rd Michigan. The former served from 1864-1866 in the western theater of the war.  For more information on the reorganized 3rd Michigan go here.

John Blanchard 4-2-12

Peter Burns 4-15-8

Malcolm Campbell 3-9-8

Peter Fontee 3-9-14

Robert Frost 5-3-26

Melvin Gregory 7-2-11

Truman Hayner 7-10-34

John Lardie 5-5-21

William J. Mills 4-18-7

Hiram Moore 7-23-7

Edgar G. Newman 5-8-12

Krusen Perry 4-17-3

Alexander Smith 7-5-61

Riley S. Stearns 7-3-12

Louis Uuper 4-11-30

Riley F. Warner 3-3-7

William H. Watts 4-14-9

Melvin A. Wells 7-8-36

John E. Spalding 3rd reorganized

John E. Spalding was 24 years old when he enlisted in Company E, 3rd Michigan Reorganized Infantry on September 3, 1864, at Grand Rapids, for three years and was mustered on September 9. He was discharged at Benton Barracks, MO, on September 28, 1865. 

He eventually returned to Michigan and settled in Grand Rapids township. He is buried in Mason Cemetery.

Leonard Partello

Leonard was 44 years old, married with six children and probably from Lyons, Ionia County, when he enlisted for three years at Lyons on October 11, 1864, in Company C, 3rd reorganized Michigan Infantry.

He died of disease on January 8, 1868, at Murfreesboro, TN, and was buried in the National Cemetery at Stones River plot F, grave no. 2505.

George Morrison update 10/18/2016

George Morrison was born in 1839 in Michigan, probably the son of New York natives John Eddy (1804-1884) and Eliza (McKelvy, 1811-1880).

Sometime around the summer of 1833 John Morrison was the first settler of what is now Berlin Township in Ionia County. By 1850 John and Eliza had settled their family on a large farm in Berlin, Ionia County, where George attended school with his siblings. In 1860 George was working as a farm laborer and living with his fmaily in Berlin.

George (younger) stood 5’6” with blue eyes, light hair and a fair complexion and was a 23-year-old farmer probably living in Ionia County when he enlisted in Company G on February 28, 1862, at Saranac, Ionia County, Michigan, for 3 years, hand was mustered the same day. George was discharged for disability on June 3, 1862, or March 1, 1864, at Washington, DC.

After he was discharged from the army George probably returned to Ionia County where he apparently have reentered the service in Company C, 3rd Reorganized Michigan infantry on August 28, 1864, at Ionia, Ionia County for 3 years, mustered on August 29 at Grand Rapids.

He died on March 30, 1865, of dysentery at Nashville City hospital in Nashville, Tennessee, and was buried in the Nashville city cemetery. His remains were eventually transferred to the Nashville National Cemetery: J-14748.

No pension seems to be available.