[For details on this project visit the introduction in the block 01 post. By lot no.]
Block 12 consists of at least 14 veterans of the Civil War, including at least one cenotaph (George Pierce).
Lot 2. John Boeye (Boyer) formerly of Battery E 1st Michigan Light Artillery and John Oppeneer who served in Company A 1st Engineers & Mechanics.
Lot 9. Kommer Esveld of Company B 21st Michigan Infantry.
Lot 14. Elias Hall, former Ordnance Sgt of Company B 5th Michigan Cavalry.
Lot 18, Andrew McReynolds and Benjamin Franklin McReynolds, both formerly of the 1st New York Cavalry. Also known as the Lincoln Cavalry Andrew helped organize the regiment. Benjamin had the distinction of being in Ford's heater the night Lincoln was shot.
Lot 22. Leonard Semeyn of Company H 1st Michigan Infantry.
Lot 26. Frederick Randall, formerly of Company F 3rd Michigan Infantry (reorganized) and Thomas Reed, a veteran of Company B 21st Michigan Infantry.
Lot 30. William H. Chamberlain formerly of Company A 3rd Michigan Infantry. He was brother-in-law to Edwin Pierce, brother of Byron Root Pierce who is in block 11. Also buried with Chamberlain are two of Edwin's children.
Lot 32. John Smith of Company D 1st Michigan Engineers & Mechanics.
Lot 33. Captain Heman Nickerson Moore of Company K 7th Michigan Cavalry.
Lot 34. Thomas Mitchell, former 1st Sgt of Company H 4th Michigan Cavalry, died 16 January 1863 of wounds received at Stones River, TN; his body was returned to Grand Rapids for a funeral and was interred in the Peirce family plot. Also his nephew George C. Peirce (not Pierce) who served in the U.S. Signals Corps.
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Lot 35. Captain James Dorset Earle captain of commissary subsistence for U.S. volunteers during the war.
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