title: 1st Michigan Infantry Regiment (3 years)
text: # 1st Michigan Infantry Regiment (3 years)
  
  The 1st Michigan Infantry Regiment was an infantry regiment that served in the Union Army during the American Civil War.
  
  ## Service
  
  The 1st Michigan Infantry was organized at Detroit, Michigan and mustered into Federal service for a three-year enlistment on September 16, 1861. This regiment retained the number of the original 1st Michigan raised for a three-month enlistment.
  
  The regiment was mustered out on July 19, 1865.
  
  ## Total strength and casualties
  
  The regiment suffered 15 officers and 172 enlisted men who were killed in action or mortally wounded and 1 officer and 149 enlisted men who died of disease, for a total of 337 fatalities.
  
  ## Commanders
  
  * Colonel John C. Robinson
  * Colonel Ira C. Abbott
  