Letter from Leonard G. Loomis to Elizabeth Abbott dated February 10, 1864. In this letter, he describes an example of how African Americans end up in prison and under his watch in the Provost Guard. He relates their history to Elizabeth and...
American Civil War; Loomis, Leonard G.; Leonard G. Loomis; Abbott (Loomis), Elizabeth; Elizabeth (Loomis) Abbott; Forty-Second Ohio Infantry; 42nd Ohio Infantry; Plaquemines Parish (La.); picture; photograph; African Americans; Provost Guard;...
Letter from Leonard G. Loomis to Elizabeth Abbott dated June 13, 1863. In this letter, he describes life at a Union Hospital, reminisces about past times in Michigan, and comments on public opinion in the north about the war.
American Civil War; Loomis, Leonard G.; Leonard G. Loomis; Abbott (Loomis), Elizabeth; Elizabeth (Loomis) Abbott; Forty-Second Ohio Infantry; 42nd Ohio Infantry; Memphis (Tenn.); Vicksburg (Miss.); Ulysses S. Grant; Grant, Ulysses S.; Union Army;...
Newspaper clipping of the poem "To the Thirteenth Infantry" written by Mrs. Kenyon. In pencil, it states: "read at the annual reunion of the 13th at Kalamazoo, Mich., October 1905.
American Civil War; Kenyon, DeWitt C.; DeWitt C. Kenyon; Viola A. Kenyon; Kenyon, Viola A.; Thirteenth Michigan Infantry; 13th Michigan Infantry; poem; "To the Thirteenth Infantry";
Newspaper clipping from the New York Herald regarding the status of the Union Army.
American Civil War; Abraham Lincoln; Lincoln, Abraham; assassination; John Wilkes Booth; Booth, John Wilkes; Sherman, William Tecumseh; William Tecumseh Sherman; Grant, Ulysses S.; Ulysses S. Grant; Washington, D.C.;
This volume follows the Michigan volunteers in the Second Michigan Infantry. The series is a compilation of the military history of each soldier of the Civil War who was a resident of the State of Michigan at the time of enlistment.
American Civil War; Regimental Histories; Soldiers; 2nd Michigan Infantry; Second Michigan Infantry
Black and white postcard from approximately 1908 showing the west side of Main Street in Athens, Michigan.
Athens (Mich.); Calhoun County (Mich.); Main Street (Athens, Mich.); Athens Times Newspaper (Athens, Mich.); street scenes; storefronts; carriages and coaches; people
Newspaper clipping from 1939 with a photo from "Ye Olde Photograph Album" of Turner Street in 1917 in Lansing, Michigan. Article is from The State Journal.
Lansing (Mich.); Ingham County (Mich.); Turner Street (Lansing, Mich.); street scenes;