The 8th Michigan  Infantry.

The 8th Michigan Infantry, Company C was made up of men from Gratiot County.  
The majority of volunteers enlisted on Aug. 12, 1861, rendezvoused at Grand 
Rapids, MI and was mustered into service on Sept. 23, 1861.  They left on 
Sept. 26th with Col. Wm. F. Fenton in command.

8th MI Inf., Company C officers were as follows: 
Captain - Ralph Ely 
First Lieutenant - George S. Gordon
Second Lieutenant - Charles  B. Holiday 
Sergeants - Frederick  M. Badger, Henry F. Waymire, James H. Sweeting, 
Nathan Church, and Wilbur Nelson
Corporals - Simon McLaughlin, Charles Trevoy, Garwood E. Kress, 
John W. Doane, Davis M. Waite, Lucius C. Knapp, Ephraim Brown, and Dorr Gould

Enlistees were as follows:
  
The following enlisted on Aug.  12, 1861:
 
Adams, Emery
Adams, Ephraim L. 
Badger, Frederick M.
Bell, Phares
Boyer, Israel 
Brown, Ephraim 
Brooke, Eli S. 
Buic, Jas. (spelling per book) 
Burgess, Clarkson 
Burwell, John R. 
Chaffin, Daniel 
Church, Nathan 
Clark, Amasa 
Clymer, Isaac H.  
Cronk, Cyrenius 
Cramer, Martin W. 
Doane, John W. 
Dickinson, Jas.  
Eastman, Alonzo 
Ely, Ralph              
Ellison, Jacob B. 
Feaster, George W. 
Flanigan, Henry 
George, Jonathan K. 
Gordon, George S. 
Gould, Dorr 
Harris, William B. 
Hart, Hinsdale S. 
Hickman, Clement 
Hickman, Zachariah 
Hildreth, William I. 
Hines, Jas. M. 
Holiday, Charles B. 
Hull, George 
Husted, Norman B. 
Jack, Alonzo 
Kimmel, Enos H. 
Knapp, Lucius C. 
Kress, Garwood E. 
Mecomber, Joseph 
Minica, Fred.  W. 
Moore, Franklin 
Mull, Edwin E. 
Nelson, Wilbur 
Packard, Elmer Y. 
Parker, Jas. B. 
Parker, Martin R. 
Pegg, Joel A. 
Phelps, Orin 
Piper, Lewis 
Ring, Jacob C. 
Rockafellow, Joseph C. 
Rooks, Charles  
Rowley, Joel 
Schlappi, Constantine 
Scott, John C. 
Smith, Albert 
Strayer, Michael K. 
Strayer, Nathaniel 
Strayer, William H. 
Sweeting, Jas. H. 
Thornton, P. S. 
Trevoy, Charles F. 
Turner, Silas 
Vanderbeek, Harrison 
Vanderbeek, William  
Van Leuven, Alfred 
Walker, Benjamin L. 
Waymire, Henry F. 
Waite, Davis M. 
Waldron, Welcome 
Walker, Chester 
Willetts, Edwin D. 
Weaver, Henry C.   
Williams, Jefferson M. 
Wolfe, Solomon 
Wurts, Alexander  
Young, Stephen 
  
The following enlisted on various dates:
Loomis, Edgar           Aug. 23, 1861
Andrews, Lyman A.       Jan.  9, 1862
Barnes, John W.         Jan.  9, 1862
Brady, Samuel S.        Jan.  9, 1862
Evans, Lorenzo          Jan.  9, 1862
Ferris, Henry C.        Jan.  9, 1862
Thornton, David M.      Jan.  9, 1862
Train, Azro             Jan.  9, 1862
Turner, Burr            Jan.  9, 1862
Hamp, Napoleon B.       Feb.  1, 1862
Rogers, William N.      Feb.  1, 1862
Harrington, A. J.       Mar. 14, 1862
Huntington, Wm. B.      Aug. 12, 1862
Lowery, Robert          Aug. 14, 1862
Ward, W. E.             Aug. 17, 1862
Pritchard, Chas. H.     Aug. 17, 1862
Holmes, Wm.             Aug. 21, 1862
Hamp, John Q.           Aug. 25, 1862
Wiley, Alex. M.         Oct.     1863
Halstead, Erastus       Dec. 30, 1863
Harris, Lionel W.       Dec. 30, 1863
Amsbury, Ira            Oct.     1864
Ely, Townsend A.        Feb.     1865

The above names were extracted from the book "Gratiot County Michigan, 
Historical, Biographical, Statistical" by Willard D. Tucker: Published 
1913 by Seemann & Peters, Saginaw, Michigan