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Marshall Wright Chapin (Monroe County, Michigan, farmer and soldier.)

b. 1830? d. 1873-01-13

Monroe County, Michigan, farmer and soldier. Michigan native. Married to Louisa Vreeland Chapin. Father of Helen Chapin and Mary Chapin. Farmer in Monroe County, Michigan, in 1860. Employed John Kipp as a farm laborer in Monroe County in 1860. Served in the 4th Michigan Volunteer Infantry Regiment (U.S.A.) as a first lieutenant and captain from June 20, 1861. Served in the 23rd Michigan Volunteer Infantry Regiment (U.S.A.) as a colonel. Commanded the Thirty-Eighth Brigade of the 12th Division of the Army of the Ohio (U.S.A.) in October and November 1862. Commanded the Second Brigade of the 23rd Corps (U.S.A.) from July 1863 to April 15, 1864. Resigned on account of disability on April 15, 1864.

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Race
White

Bibliography

Eighth Manuscript Census of the United States (1860), Population Schedules, Michigain, Monroe County, Ash, p. 468.

Ninth Manuscript Census of the United States (1870), Population Schedules, Kentucky, Monroe County, Berlin, p. 220A-B.

Compiled Service Records of Volunteer Union Soldiers Who Served in Organizations From the State of Michigan, NARA RG 94, Microfilm Series M545, Roll 0007.

Record of Service of Michigan Volunteers in the Civil War, 1861-1865, (Kalamazoo, MI: Ihling Bros. & Everard, 1905), 24.

Frank J. Welcher, The Union Army, 1861-1865, Organizations and Operations: Volume II, The Western Theater, (Bloomington: Indiana University Press, 1993), 205, 208, 334-9, 640.

"A Soldier's Grave," The Salt Lake Daily Tribune (Salt Lake City, UT), May 23, 1888, p. 2.

"Col. Marshall Wright Chapin (1831-1873)," Find A Grave, Memorial 64229324, accessed January 19, 2023, https://www.findagrave.com/memorial/64229324.

Citation

Chapin, Marshall Wright. Accessed via the Civil War Governors of Kentucky Digital Documentary Edition, https://discovery.civilwargovernors.org/document/S32214878 (November 12, 2026).

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