Michigan Civil War Landmarks
Title | Michigan Civil War Landmarks PDF eBook |
Author | David Ingall |
Publisher | Arcadia Publishing |
Total Pages | 224 |
Release | 2015-04-13 |
Genre | History |
ISBN | 1625854668 |
When America faced its greatest internal crisis, Michigan answered the call with over ninety thousand troops. The story of that sacrifice is preserved in the state's rich collection of Civil War monuments, markers, forts, cemeteries, reenactments, museums and exhibits. Discover how General George A. Custer and the famed Michigan Cavalry Brigade "saved the Union." Visit the chair that President Lincoln was assassinated in at Ford's Theatre, and view the grave of the last African American Union veteran. With a foreword by Civil War historian Jack Dempsey, this work is the first of its kind to chronicle the many Civil War landmarks in the Wolverine State.
Michigan Civil War Monuments
Title | Michigan Civil War Monuments PDF eBook |
Author | |
Publisher | |
Total Pages | 96 |
Release | 1965 |
Genre | Monuments |
ISBN |
Glory, Valor and Sacrifice
Title | Glory, Valor and Sacrifice PDF eBook |
Author | |
Publisher | |
Total Pages | 79 |
Release | 2012 |
Genre | Historic sites |
ISBN | 9780615565743 |
Guidebook identifying Michigan markers, monuments, museum exhibits, forts, buildings, landmarks and grave sites connected to the Civil War.
Michigan at Gettysburg, July 1st, 2d and 3rd, 1863, June 12th, 1889
Title | Michigan at Gettysburg, July 1st, 2d and 3rd, 1863, June 12th, 1889 PDF eBook |
Author | Michigan. Gettysburg Battlefield Commission |
Publisher | |
Total Pages | 266 |
Release | 1889 |
Genre | Gettysburg, Battle of, Gettysburg, Pa., 1863 |
ISBN |
Report of the Michigan Civil War Centennial Observance Commission to the Governor, Legislature and the People of Michigan
Title | Report of the Michigan Civil War Centennial Observance Commission to the Governor, Legislature and the People of Michigan PDF eBook |
Author | Michigan Civil War Centennial Observance Commission |
Publisher | |
Total Pages | 92 |
Release | 1966 |
Genre | United States |
ISBN |
Michigan Soldiers in the Civil War
Title | Michigan Soldiers in the Civil War PDF eBook |
Author | Frederick DeForrest Williams |
Publisher | Bureau of Michigan History Michigan Department of State |
Total Pages | 88 |
Release | 1994 |
Genre | Biography & Autobiography |
ISBN |
The 16th Michigan Infantry in the Civil War, Revised and Updated
Title | The 16th Michigan Infantry in the Civil War, Revised and Updated PDF eBook |
Author | Kim Crawford |
Publisher | MSU Press |
Total Pages | 759 |
Release | 2019-08-01 |
Genre | History |
ISBN | 1628953748 |
On the hot summer evening of July 2, 1863, at the climax of the struggle for a Pennsylvania hill called Little Round Top, four Confederate regiments charge up the western slope, attacking the smallest and most exposed of their Union foe: the 16th Michigan Infantry. Terrible fighting has raged, but what happens next will ultimately—and unfairly—stain the reputation of one of the Army of the Potomac’s veteran combat outfits, made up of men from Detroit, Saginaw, Ontonagon, Hillsdale, Lansing, Adrian, Plymouth, and Albion. In the dramatic interpretation of the struggle for Little Round Top that followed the Battle of Gettysburg, the 16th Michigan Infantry would be remembered as the one that broke during perhaps the most important turning point of the war. Their colonel, a young lawyer from Ann Arbor, would pay with his life, redeeming his own reputation, while a kind of code of silence about what happened at Little Round Top was adopted by the regiment’s survivors. From soldiers’ letters, journals, and memoirs, this book relates their experiences in camp, on the march, and in battle, including their controversial role at Gettysburg, up to the surrender of Gen. Robert E. Lee at Appomattox Court House.