| Last Name: | LaValley |
| First Name: | Orlando |
| Conflicts: | Civil War |
| Purple Heart: | No |
| Branch of Service: | 23rd Mich Vol Infantry |
| Cemetery: | Brookside |
| VSO Membership: | Whiteside GAR Post 143 |
| Story / Circumstances: | Died 04/23/1948. He saw action in the battles of Farnklin and Nashville, TN, the Atlanta campaign and the final engagement of the war in North Carolina.. Honorably discharged in Raleigh, NC December 1865. He served as commander of GAR Post 143, Commander of the Michigan Department of the Grand Army of the Republic, and was vice commander of the National GAR. |