Nearly 150 years ago, a military artifact that now stands in downtown Petoskey was involved in a well-known Civil War naval engagement.
And as that milestone anniversary approaches, some local residents hope to enhance the appearance of the Dahlgren cannon on display in Pennsylvania Park.
From behind the glass, they stare out into an endless future.
They were brothers, from Marshall, who answered the call and paid the price. And now, in this small building on Michigan Avenue, all that’s left are aging photos in a room of aging photos that, just by their very existence, must tell a great story.
As a boy, I grew up hearing stories from my grandmother about her uncle, Thomas W. Goodenough, who had served and died during the Civil War. My grandmother told me that he had been “killed and buried at Antietam,” and she gave me a photograph of Tom, along with a diary and another small book that he had carried with him during the war. I was vaguely aware that there had been another uncle, George W. Brown, who also had served in the war, but he did not figure prominently in my grandmother’s tales.
A public art display created by Ypsilanti High School students was installed Friday morning on the west side of the nearly 150-year-old Thompson Blockbuilding in Depot Town.
Mary Delcamp, president of the Historic Eastside Neighborhood Association, and her husband John Delcamp, member of the Civil War Reenacting Company E, 17TH Michigan Infantry, came up with the idea.
The second year of the Dexter Area Historical Society’s commemoration of the Civil War at Gordon Hall promises a much more robust presentation with several exciting additions.
For example, the Confederacy will be represented this year alongside the Union forces.
This year Company A is bringing Bledsoe’s battery and enough men for seven regiments, up from four last year.
The Michigan Humanities Council awarded 14 grants totaling $193,167 to support local cultural and historical projects in November. One of those grants went to the Clarke Historical Library at Central Michigan University to support its completion of a documentary called The Road to Andersonville: Michigan Native American Sharpshooters in the Civil War.
According to a press release, the film will document the history of the Native American soldiers of the first Michigan sharpshooters during the Civil War, and the grant will support its completion and distribution.
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Organized in October of 1861, the 13th Michigan Infantry quickly began to take shape.
Recruiting for Colonel Stuart’s Regiment proceeded with four companies of the regiment in camp on the grounds of the Horse Association at Kalamazoo (just south of Washington Square). The men were comfortably located in buildings that were impervious to rain, reported the Detroit Free Press on Nov. 9, 1861. Capt. Carpenter’s company (H) will go into camp on Monday, and Captain Palmer’s (C) and others will soon follow. The whole regiment will be in camp in a few weeks, the Free Press wrote.
The First Michigan Sharpshooters are best known for Company K, which was a company made up almost exclusively of Michigan Indians and many of them from our region of Northern Michigan. However, there were other aspects of the sharpshooters which were just as important to the valor achieved by this regiment.
Company I of the First Michigan Sharpshooters contained some of the white men from Northern Michigan who enlisted into the regiment. Wallace Woolsey from Northport, the son of Chauncey Woolsey who was featured in an earlier article, was one of these individuals.
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