The Twenty-ninth was organized at Saginaw and was recruited from the Sixth Congressional District. It was mustered into service Oct. 3, 1864, with an enrollment of 860 officers and men.

The field, staff and line officers at organization were as follows:

Colonel, Thomas Saylor, Saginaw. Lieutenant Colonel, E. Frank Eddy, Flint. Major, Alpheus M. Beebe, Lansing. Surgeon, Titus Duncan, East Saginaw. Assistant Surgeon, Samuel S. Garrigues, Bay City. Second Assistant Surgeon, Elmore Palmer. Ann Arbor. Adjutant, Henry P. Seymour, Linden. Quartermaster, William A. Bryce, Bay City. Chaplain, John Hawker, Portsmouth.

1. Captain, Alson Greenfield, Vassar. First Lieutenant, Edward P. Allen, Vassar. Second Lieutenant, Jefferson J. Wilder, Vassar.
2. Captain, William L. Lewis, Bay City. First Lieutenant, Hiram Bunnell, Portsmouth. Second Lieutenant, Charles Monroe, Bay City.
3. Captain, Edwin Saunders, Saginaw City. First Lieutenant, Benjamin W. Merrick, Port Austin. Second Lieutenant, William H. Tuttle, Saginaw City.
4. Captain, Charles G. Meyer, East Saginaw. First Lieutenant, John A. Berger, Frankenmuth. Second Lieutenant, Frederick Van Vliet, Bloomfield.
5. Captain, Andrew J. Patterson, Owosso. First Lieutenant, Sidney G. Main, Owosso. Second Lieutenant, William F. Close, Byron.
6. Captain, George T. Swimm, St. Charles. First Lieutenant, Horace Blackmer, Bridgeport. Second Lieutenant, John Branch, Forest.
7. Captain, Cornelius S. Eldridge, Flint. First Lieutenant, Truman W. Hawley, East Saginaw. Second Lieutenant, Charles S. Cummings, Flint.
8. Captain, La Rue Schram, Burton. First Lieutenant, George A. Hill, Richfield. Second Lieutenant, George Reed, Forest.
9. Captain, John H. Hackett, Ypsilanti. First Lieutenant Guart V. S. Young, Perry. Second Lieutenant, James McCallum, Hancock.
11. Captain, Waldo W. Pain, Marquette. First Lieutenant, _____, _____. Second Lieutenant, Robert H. McQuaid, Belleville.

The regiment left Saginaw October 6, 1864, for Nashville, Tenn., and arrived at the time the confederates, under General Hood, were advancing upon the city.

The Twenty-ninth was sent to Decatur, Ala., to protect that city from the enemy and arrived just in time to be assigned in the Union lines to repel the attack of the confederates. The regiment marched into the rifle pits under a galling fire with the coolness of veterans, though this was the first experience of the Twenty-ninth under fire. The regiment took a very important and honorable part in the defense of Decatur, as the Union forces were out-numbered by the confederates three to one, and by obstinate fighting and firmness under fire beat off the enemy and remained in. possession of the field. The regiment was engaged with the enemy several times while out on post duty and acting as escorts to trains and in every instance defeated designs of the confederates.

The Twenty-ninth was stationed at Murfreesboro, Tenn., doing garrison duty until Sept. 6, when it was mustered out of service and returned to Detroit, Mich., where it was paid and disbanded September 12, 1865,

The engagements of the regiment with the enemy were at Decatur, Ala., October 26, 27, 28, 1864; Overall Creek, Tenn., December 7, 1864; Winsted Church, Tenn., December 13, 1864; Shelbyville Pike, Tenn., December 15, 16, 1864; Nolansville, Tenn., December 17, 1864.