Includes mostly correspondence with the Adjutant General's Office. Also includes "War Pictures", a poem by Gabriel Campbell, Captain of the Seventeenth Michigan Infantry (pages 11 and 12 cut, missing pages 13 and 14).
United States. Army. Michigan Infantry Regiment, 17th (1862-1865); United States -- History -- Civil War, 1861-1865 -- Regimental histories.
Charles M. Croswell, 17th Governor of Michigan, 1877-1880. Republican. Religion: Presbyterian/Episcopal. Born in New York in 1825. Died 1886. Buried in Adrian. Lawyer and banker by trade.
Portrait of Elijah Ordiway, 1862. Adrian. Enlisted in company A, Seventeenth Infantry, Aug. 9, 1862, at Adrian, for 3 years, age 29. Mustered Aug. 19, 1862. Died at Knoxville, Md. Nov. 12, 1862 (Descriptive Roll Seventeenth Michigan Volunteers).
Ordiway, Elijah ;Elijah Ordiway; American Civil War ; ; Seventeenth Michigan Infantry ;17th Michigan Infantry; Adrian (Mich.)
Portrait of Fletcher E. Marsh, 1862-1864. Enlisted in company F, Nineteenth Infantry, as Sergeant, Aug. 6, 1862, at Kalamazoo, for 3 years, age 18. Mustered Sept. 5, 1862. Sergeant Major July 1, 1863. Discharged to accept promotion in Colored...
Marsh, Fletcher E. ;Fletcher E. Marsh; American Civil War ; ; noncommissioned officer ; ; Nineteenth Michigan Infantry ;19th Michigan Infantry; Seventeenth U.S. Colored Troops ;17th U.S. Colored Troop; sergeant major ; captain ; Kalamazoo (Mich.)
Portrait of Henry B. Androus, 1861-1865. Coldwater. Entered service in company K, Sixth Indiana Infantry. Enlisted April 19, 1861. Discharged August 1861. Re-entered service in company C, Seventeenth Michigan Infantry, at organization, as...
Androus, Henry B. ; Henry B. Androus; American Civil War ; Seventeenth Michigan Infantry ; 17th Michigan Infantry; Sixth Indiana Infantry ; 6th Indiana Infantry; captain ; Coldwater (Mich.) ; Spotsylvania Court House, Battle of, Va., 1864; soldier;...
Portrait of William H. Withington, 1861-1865. Entered service in company B, First Infantry, as Captain, April 29, 1861, at Jackson, for 3 months, age 26. Commissioned May 1, 1861. Mustered May 1, 1861. Wounded and taken prisoner at Bull Run,...
Withington, William H. ;William H. Withington; American Civil War ; ; ; First Michigan Infantry ;1st Michigan Infantry; Seventeenth Michigan Infantry ;17th Michigan Infantry; Ninth Army Corps ;9th Army Corps; U.S. Volunteers ; captain ; colonel ;...
Portrait of Joseph E. Tupper, 1861-1863. Clarkston. Enlisted in company I, Tenth Infantry, as Sergeant, Dec. 29, 1861, at Flint, for 3 years, age 23. Mustered Feb. 6, 1862. First Sergeant. Sergeant Major March 31, 1863. Commissioned Major,...
Tupper, Joseph E. ;Joseph E. Tupper; American Civil War ; ; noncommissioned officer ; ; Tenth Michigan Infantry ;10th Michigan Infantry; Seventeenth U.S. Colored Troops ;17th U.S. Colored Troops; sergeant ; first sergeant ; major ; Clarkston...
"Look out for drafting!!" Civil War broadside advertising for enlistment of men to Michigan's Seventeenth Infantry, Company A, posted by H. B. Androus in Detroit, Michigan.
American Civil War ; Recruiting & enlistment ; Seventeenth Michigan Infantry ;17th Michigan Infantry; Broadsides ; Androus, Henry B. ; Detroit (Mich.)
Portrait of Christian Rath, post war, c.1905. Jackson. Entered service in company G, at organization, as Second Lieutenant, Aug. 9, 1862, at Jackson, for 3 years, age 30. Commissioned to date June 17, 1862. Mustered Aug. 18, 1862. Wounded in...
Rath, Christian ;Christian Rath; American Civil War ; Seventeenth Michigan Infantry ;17th Michigan Infantry; U.S. Volunteers ; second lieutenant ; first lieutenant ; captain ; brevet major ; brevet lieutenant colonel ; Jackson (Mich.) ; Antietam,...
Portrait of Christian Rath, in horse drawn carriage, post war, c.1905. Jackson. Entered service in company G, at organization, as Second Lieutenant, Aug. 9, 1862, at Jackson, for 3 years, age 30. Commissioned to date June 17, 1862. Mustered...
Rath, Christian ;Christian Rath; American Civil War ; Seventeenth Michigan Infantry ;17th Michigan Infantry; U.S. Volunteers ; second lieutenant ; first lieutenant ; captain ; brevet major ; brevet lieutenant colonel ; Jackson (Mich.) ; Antietam,...
Portrait of Philip Frank Glascoff, alias Frank White, 1861-1865. German-born. Marshall. Enlisted in company H, Seventeenth Infantry, July 3, 1862, at Marshall, for 3 years, age 18. Mustered Aug. 19, 1862. Taken prisoner at Spottsylvania, Va.,...
Glascoff, Philip Frank ;Philip Frank Glascoff; White, Frank ;Frank White; American Civil War ; ; noncommissioned officer ; Seventeenth Michigan Infantry ;17th Michigan Infantry; sergeant ; Marshall (Mich.) ; Spotsylvania Court House, Battle of,...
Portrait of Samuel Osborn, 1862-1865. Medina. Enlisted in company H, Seventeenth Infantry, June 23, 1862, at Medina, for 3 years, age 40. Mustered Aug. 19, 1862. Wounded in action at Antietam, Md., Sept. 17, 1862. Discharged at Washington,...
Osborn, Samuel ;Samuel Osborn; American Civil War ; ; Seventeenth Michigan Infantry ;17th Michigan Infantry; Medina (Mich.) ; Ionia (Mich.) ; Antietam, Battle of, Md., 1862
Portrait of William V. Richards, 1861-1865. Ann Arbor. Entered service in company A, First Lancers, Oct. 1, 1861, for 3 years, age 21. Mustered Nov. 1, 1861. Adjutant. Mustered out March 20, 1862. Re-entered service in Seventeenth Infantry,...
Richards, William V. ;William V. Richards; American Civil War ; ; ; First Michigan Lancers ;1st Michigan Lancers; Seventeenth Michigan Infantry ;17th Michigan Infantry; Ninth Army Corps ;9th Army Corps; U.S. Volunteers ; adjutant ; assistant...
Portrait of Christian Rath, post war, c.1905. Jackson. Entered service in company G, at organization, as Second Lieutenant, Aug. 9, 1862, at Jackson, for 3 years, age 30. Commissioned to date June 17, 1862. Mustered Aug. 18, 1862. Wounded in...
Rath, Christian ;Christian Rath; American Civil War ; Seventeenth Michigan Infantry ;17th Michigan Infantry; U.S. Volunteers ; second lieutenant ; first lieutenant ; captain ; brevet major ; brevet lieutenant colonel ; Jackson (Mich.) ; Antietam,...
Portrait of Orson B. Woodin, 1862-1865. Jackson. Enlisted in company K, Seventeenth Infantry, Aug. 11, 1862, at Jackson, for 3 years, age 38. Mustered Aug. 16, 1862. Quartermaster Sergeant Feb. 22, 1863. Commissioned Second Lieutenant May 26,...
Woodin, Orson B. ;Orson B. Woodin; American Civil War ; ; noncommissioned officer ; ; Seventeenth Michigan Infantry ;17th Michigan Infantry; quartermaster sergeant ; second lieutenant ; Jackson (Mich.)
Portrait of Frank M. Howe and Velorus W. Bruce, 1865-1866. Howe, Frank M., Emmett. Enlisted in company C, Twentieth Infantry, Aug. 7, 1862, at Battle Creek, for 3 years, age 21. Mustered Aug. 16, 1862. Discharged July 26, 1865, at Chester, Pa., for...
Howe, Frank M. ;Frank M. Howe; Bruce, Velorus W. ;Velorus W. Bruce; American Civil War ; ; Seventeenth Michigan Infantry ;17th Michigan Infantry; Twentieth Michigan Infantry ;20th Michigan Infantry; Emmett (Mich.) ; Battle Creek (Mich.) ; Adrian...
Portrait of Lorin L. Comstock, 1861-1863. Adrian. Commissioned Second Lieutenant company K, First Michigan Volunteers, Mexican War, Oct 30, 1847. Mustered out. Entered service in First Infantry, as Lieutenant Colonel May 24, 1861, at Detroit,...
Comstock, Lorin L. ;Lorin L. Comstock; American Civil War ; Seventeenth Michigan Infantry ; 17th Michigan Infantry; First Michigan Infantry ; 1st Michigan Infantry; Adrian (Mich.); soldier; commissioned officer; military officer; second lieutenant...
Portrait of William H. Withington post war c.1890. Entered service in company B, First Infantry, as Captain, April 29, 1861, at Jackson, for 3 months, age 26. Commissioned May 1, 1861. Mustered May 1, 1861. Wounded and taken prisoner at Bull...
Withington, William H. ;William H. Withington; American Civil War ; ; ; First Michigan Infantry ;1st Michigan Infantry; Seventeenth Michigan Infantry ;17th Michigan Infantry; Ninth Army Corps ;9th Army Corps; U.S. Volunteers ; captain ; colonel ;...