Kambreion's List: michigan's role in the civil war

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• Terrible and tragic?  Michigan suffered the loss of some 14,700 soldiers and sailors out of 90,000 who went off to fight.  One out of every 7 uniformed personnel never came home alive.  The cost was staggering, approximately 2 percent of the State’s population (749,113 in the 1860 census).  One of out every 51 Michigan lives was lost.

   

  By comparison, Michigan lost 15,415 men and women in uniform during World War II.  This, too, was an awful cost:  approximately .3 percent of the State’s population (5,256,106 in the 1940 census).  One of out every 339 Michigan lives was lost.

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• Detroit: Soldiers and Sailors Monument, Campus Martius; Gateway to Freedom International Memorial to the Underground Railroad, Hart Plaza (companion sculpture on Riverfront Drive in Windsor); Grand Army of the Republic Building, 1942 Grand River Ave.; Historic Ft. Wayne, Livernois and West Jefferson; statue of Civil War Gen. Alpheus Williams of Detroit, Belle Isle.

  2. Grand Rapids: Kent County Civil War Monument, downtown; Grand Rapids Home for Veterans Cemetery along the Grand River has 2,413 graves of Civil War veterans.

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• Although no battles were fought in Michigan during the Civil War, more than 90,000 soldiers from the state served in the Union Army. 

   Michigan soldiers fought in every major battle and many minor ones — more than 800 in all. Approximately 14,000 Michigan soldiers died in the war, including 4,100 in battle; the rest died from disease. Sixty-seven Michigan soldiers were awarded the Medal of Honor for bravery and courage in combat.

• By the end of 1861, there were 21 Michigan regiments in the Union Army. By war’s end, Michigan had raised 31 infantry regiments; 11 cavalry regiments; and regiments of engineers, mechanics, sharpshooters and artillery. Six hundred Michigan men served in the Union Navy. 

   Frederick D. Williams’ lean but informative book “Michigan Soldiers in the Civil War” provides a concise narrative of Michigan’s contribution to the Union war effort. Michigan soldiers fought in both the Eastern and Western theaters of war.

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• The Michigan Civil War Sesquicentennial History Partners (History Partners) is composed of individuals, organizations, and communities throughout the state interested in commemorating and promoting the Civil War Sesquicentennial (2011 - 2015) and Michigan's role in that war. Comprising the History Partners are over 1,000 Civil War reenactors and living history historians; Civil War patriotic and hereditary organizations (including the Michigan Department SUVCW); Civil War scholars and educators; Civil War Roundtables; local and statewide libraries, historical societies, and genealogical societies; local and statewide museums; and numerous local Michigan communities that sponsor special and annual historical programs related to the Civil War.
• Michigan Civil War Sesquicentennial History Partners Website

    

  As a special service to the State Civil War Sesquicentennial Commission and the Michigan citizenry, the History Partners has developed a web page that lists all the Civil War Sesquicentennial Events taking place in Michigan and some significant National events. Currently, 76 events are listed 2013; however the list is growing daily (180 events were listed for 2012 and 169 events were listed for 2011). The History Partners’ Civil War Sesquicentennial Event Listing can be accessed by clicking the below link:

• It was 150 years ago that Abraham Lincoln narrowly won the presidency in a four-way race. He carried Michigan and 17 other states but took less than 40 percent of the popular vote.

  Lincoln didn't campaign in Michigan in 1860 but had visited the state four years earlier to campaign for the nation's first Republican presidential nominee, John Fremont, according to historian William Anderson, a former president of West Shore Community College and ex-director of the state Department of History, Arts and Libraries.

  On that visit, Lincoln told an audience in Kalamazoo, "The question of slavery, at the present day, should be not only the greatest question, but very nearly the sole question. This is the question: Shall the Government of the United States prohibit slavery in the United States."

  Fremont carried Michigan but Democrat James Buchanan won the election.

  Lincoln's own victory in 1860 triggered the secession of 11 southern states and the Civil War.

  Looking back at the state's part in the bloody conflict, Dempsey said, "It was a difficult time, a tragic time.

• men to fight in the Civil War including specialized
• ichigan sent 90,000
• and more cavalry per capita than any ot

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