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A proposal advancing in Lansing would rename a stretch of scenic M-22 after a Michigan company of Native American soldiers who fought in the Civil War. After unanimously passing the Senate earlier ...
Supplemental data on the number of Union sharpshooter units in each state is from A Compendium of the War of the Rebellion by Civil War statistician Frederick H. Dyer, first published in 1908.
Civil War sharpshooter Berry Benson fought in several major battles with Gen. Lee's Army of Northern Virginia. Benson was captured and escaped from two notorious Union prisons before returning to ...
Green Bluff’s Siemers Farm, known for strawberry and fall festivals, transformed into a Civil War battlefield this Memorial ...
The image of the half-milked cow and the young men running off to the Civil War comes at the start of ... learned that the recruiter was looking for sharpshooters. “(A)s each of us was born ...
A group of Native Americans from throughout Michigan, known as Company K, volunteered as sharpshooters during the U.S. Civil War, an official of the Mount Pleasant chapter of a Civil War ...
“Breechloaders and Greencoats” by Dale Gallon depicts men of the 2nd Regiment of U.S. Sharpshooters at Gettysburg ... and the tactics on the Civil War battlefields remained unchanged from ...
A Native American sharpshooter’s return home during the Civil War greatly surprised his wife. She had been notified that he had died. Quita Shier of Larkin Township recently told area senior ...
Breathing, blinking and slightly fidgeting, Blair McNamara stood next to a cloaked gravestone, a 19-year-old re-enactor of the Civil War sharpshooter whose memory he was helping keep alive.