1st Lieutenant Marshall W. Chapin and the 4th Michigan Infantry.

Robert Gray

Sergeant Major
Joined
Jul 24, 2012
Mock swordplay in the camp of the 4th Michigan Infantry.
The seated soldier in the center has been identified as 1st Lieutenant Marshall W. Chapin of Company I.

Chapin enlisted on June 20, 1861 for three years. A farmer from the Detroit area, he was 30 years old, married and the father of three children ages: 8, 3 and 1. He was commissioned Captain of Company F on January 15, 1862. He resigned on September 1, 1862. He re-entered the service as Colonel of the 23rd Michigan Infantry on September 13, 1862. Suffering from rheumatism and dysentery he resigned and was honorably discharged on April 15, 1864. He died in Salt Lake City, Utah on April 13, 1876 and is buried in Salt Lake City Cemetery, Grave H-5-14.

George Wilkinson
Crossing Hell on a Wooden Bridge
The Fourth Michigan Infantry in the American Civil War

Image: National Archives - 530571

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Is that from the Harper's Ferry, early war series? The one where you can find 1st and 2nd Rhode Island images? It just has that ' flavor ', you know? Thanks for posting!

It's a great image- Chapin looks like he dropped quite a few pounds since he first joined, doesn't he? Small wonder! Marches, training, food vastly inferior to anything his wife made. Looks lean here!
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