NOTES:
Service: 16th Regiment Michigan Volunteer (Stockton's Independent Regiment) Infantry. 3rd Brigade, 1st Division, 5th Army Corps, Army of the Potomac
History - While Eugene assigned/present

SERVICE--- Appomattox Campaign March 28-April 9. Junction of quaker and Boydton Roads and Lewis Farm near Gravelly Run March 29. White Oak Road March 30-31. Five Forks April 1. Fall of Petersburg April 2. Pursuit of Lee April 3-9. Appomattox Court House April 9. Surrender of Lee and his army. March to Washington, D.C., May 3-12. Grand Review May 23. Moved to Louisville, Ky., June 16-22, thence to Jeffersonville, Ind. Mustered out July 8, 1865.

1861-1865: Regiment lost during service 12 Officers and 235 Enlisted men killed and mortally wounded and 143 Enlisted men by disease. Total 390.

(1) Col. T. B. STOCKTON, W. P.
(2) Col. NORVAL E. WELCH (Killed).
(3) Col. BENJAMIN F. PARTRIDGE; BVT. BRIG.-GEN.

O - Officers      K - Killed and died of wounds.
M - Men           D - Died of  disease, accidents, in prison, &c.
T - Total            E - Total Enrollment
 
  

247 killed= 12.8 per cent.
1861-1865:  Total of killed and wounded. 870; died in Confederate prisons (previously included), 15.

BATTLES. K. &M.W.BATTLES.K. &M.W.
 
 

BATTLES	K.&M.W.	BATTLES	K.&M.W.
Hanover Court House, Va.	1	Spotsylvania, Va.	14
Gaines's Mill, Va.	78	North Anna, Va.	3
Glendale, Va.	1	Totopotomoy, Va.	4
Malvern Hill, Va.	10	Bethesda Church, Va.	3
Manassas, Va.	25	Siege of Petersburg, Va.	22
Fredericksburg, Va.	11	Weldon Railroad, Va.	5
Chancellorsville, Va.	1	Peebles's Farm, Va.	18
Middleburg, Va.	1	Dabney's Mills, Va.	9
Gettysburg, Pa.	29	Gravelly Run, Va.	3
Wilderness, Va.	7	Five Forks, Va.	2

Present, also, at Yorktown; Mechanicsville; White Oak Swamp; Antietam; Rappahannock Station; Mine Run, Cold Harbor; Hatcher's Run; White Oak Road; Appomattox.

NOTES.— Organized originally as "Stockton's Independent Regiment," under authority from the Secretary of War, but it was soon included in the State service. It left the State on September 16, 1861, with ten companies, 761 officers and men; two companies of sharpshooters joined it later, making twelve companies, one joining in 1862, the other in 1864. The regiment went into winter quarters at Hall's Hill, Va., and in March, 1862, moved to the Peninsula. It was assigned to the Third Brigade, First Division, Fifth Corps, in which it remained throughout the war; at that time the brigade was commanded by General Butterfield, and the division by General Morell. The regiment suffered a severe loss at Gaines's Mill, its casualties amounting to 47 killed, 114 wounded, and 53 missing; many of the latter were killed or wounded. Under command of Captain Elliott it was hotly engaged at Manassas, where it lost 16 killed, 64 wounded, and 16 missing, out of 290 engaged. Colonel Welch was in command at Gettysburg, where it took part in the historic contest of Vincent's Brigade for the possession of Little Round Top, losing in that battle 23 killed, 34 wounded, and 3 missing. Major Robert T. Elliott was killed at the Totopotomoy, and Colonel Welch in the assault at Peebles's Farm. Welch was killed on the parapet of a redoubt, which he was the first to scale.
 
 

General References:

USAMHI SOURCE: http://www.infinet.com/~lstevens/a/cw4.html

Breakey, William F. "Recollections and Incidents of Medical Military Service." In War Papers (MOLLUS, MI, Vol. 2). Detroit: James H. Stone, 1898. pp. 120-52 (17 photocopied pages). E464M5.1991v51.

Dyer, Frederick H. A Compendium of the War of the Rebellion. Vol. 2. Dayton, OH: Morningside, 1979. Ref. See pp. 1288-89 (2 photocopied pages) for a concise summary of the regiment's service.

Fox, William F. Regimental Losses in the American Civil War,1861-1865, Dayton, OH: Morningside, 1985 reprint.

Gibney, John M. "A Shadow Passing: The Tragic Story of Norval Welch and the Sixteenth Michigan at Gettysburg and Beyond." Gettysburg Mag 6 (Jan 1992): pp. 33-42 (10 photocopied pages). E475.53G482no6.

Graham, Ziba B. "On to Gettysburg: Ten Days From My Diary of 1863." (MOLLUS, MI, Vol. 1, Paper 23). 16 p. (8 photocopied pages). E464M5.1991v50. Jacklin, Rufus W. "The Famous Old Brigade." In War Papers (MOLLUS, MI, Vol. 2). Detroit:

James H. Stone, 1898. pp. 39-50 (7 photocopied pages). E464M5.1991v51. Michigan. AGO. Records of Service of Michigan Volunteers in the Civil War. Vol. 16. Kalamazoo, MI: Ihling, 1905. E514.3M62v16. Alphabetical list of regiment's personnel.

Michigan at Gettysburg...the Dedication of the Michigan Monuments... Detriot: Winn & Hammond, 1889. E475.53M62. See pp. 107-11 (3 photocopied pages) for addresses delivered at the dedication of the regimental monument at Gettysburg National Military Park.

Robertson, John, comp. Michigan in the War. Lansing, MI: W. S. George, 1880. E5l4M62. See pp. 359-73 (8 photocopied pages) for a brief history of the regiment. 16th Michigan Infantry (p. 2)

USAMHI Photo Archive includes images of individuals of this unit.

The following pertinent personal papers are in the Institute's Manuscript Archive:

Regimental papers - CWMiscColl (Official papers of regt, including muster rolls, special orders, abstract of expenditures, invoice of stores & camp and garrison equipment)

Apted, Alfred M. - CWMiscColl (Pvt's transcribed diary notes, Apr 1861-May 1864)

Berry, John G. - CWTIColl (Lt's diary, Oct 13, 1861-Oct 31, 1863; Regt papers, 1865)

Jacklin, Rufus W. - BrakeColl (1st Lt's recollections, Jul 1-3, 1863)

Salter, Charles H. - BrakeColl (1st Lt's letter, Jul 12, 1863)

Stanfield, Joseph - CWMiscColl (Enlisted man's diary, Nov 19, 1861-Jun 15, 1862)