History of St. Clair County, Michigan, containing an account of its settlement, growth, development and resources, its war record, biographical sketches, the whole preceded by a history of Michigan, Part 61

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OTHER MILITARY ORGANIZATIONS.

Among the other military organizations were "Dygert's Sharpshooters," the "Stanton Guards, " the " Provost Guards, " the " Local Defense Companies." The Jackson Guards, Com- pany A, Twenty-third Illinois Infantry, was originally the " Jackson Guards " of the city of Detroit. It entered service on the 15th of June, 1861, joining its regiment (a three months' organization) at Chicago. It moved thence to Missouri, and was part of the garrison of Lex- ington when that post was attacked, on the 15th of September, 1861, by an overwhelming rebel army under Gen. Sterling Price. The Union troops, under Col. Mulligan, held out for nine days before their small force surrendered. They were then paroled, and in October this regi- ment was mustered out of service. In December following, however, it was re-organized, the Michigan company re-enlisting, and filling up with recruits from this State. The regiment pro- ceeded to Western Virginia, in June, 1862, and has since been on duty there.

The Paw Paw Guards .- Early in the war, a company was raised at Paw Paw, in this State, which went into service with a New York regiment, and is yet known as Company C, Seven- tieth New York Infantry. It was engaged at Chancellorsville, May 3, 1863; at Gettysburg,

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July 2, losing five killed and eight wounded; and in the same month at Wapping Heights. The company was never recognized by the War Department as a Michigan organization. Its officers were appointed by the Governor of New York.

The volunteers from St. Clair who were scattered throughout those commands, are named in the following list:

First Michigan Sharpshooters Discharged .- Thomas C. Allen, 1863; Phillip Koepfgen, 1863; John McFarlane, 1865; Birney Dutton, 1865; Mark Schell, 1865; William McQueen, 1865; James Maul, 1865; Charles Boylan, 1865; Stout Van Orman, 1865; Martin R. Arm- strong, 1865; John Airheart, 1865; Emmett M. Bennett, 1865; Josiah Ross, 1865; John Isaacs, 1865; John Fitzgerald, 1865; Richard Campbell, 1865; Charles Valentine, 1865; William J. Ross, 1865; Jay R. Brewer, 1865; John Randall, 1865; Ira King, 1865; Charles Lashbrooks, 1865; Charles Ross, 1865; James Richardson, 1865; James Sanders, 1865; John C. Young, 1865; David Blair, 1865; Henry Fye, 1865; Benjamin Kilbourn, 1865; Michael Murray, 1865; Charles B. Payfer, 1865; Royal G. Platt, 1865; Charles H. Drouilliard, 1865.

Casualties. - George W. Moore, killed at Spottsylvania, May 12, 1864; Cyrus W. Hall, killed at Wilderness, May 6, 1864; James B. Smith, killed at Petersburg, July 2, 1864; William Austin, died at Washington, May 12,. 1864; William Styan, killed at Petersburg, June 17, 1864; Michael McCoy, died at Camp Douglas, November 13, 1863; John Johnson, died October 31, 1864; Anthony J. Tyson, died at Southside Railroad, Va., September 30, 1864; Fred Smith, died at Annapolis, Md., March 23, 1864; Jacob Gohl, at Andersonville, Va., October 26, 1864.

Dygert's Sharpshooters Discharged .- Tra Airheart, 1863; Orrin K. Hopkins, 1863.

FIRST MICHIGAN COLORED INFANTRY.

This was organized in the fall and winter of 1863, under Col. Henry Barns, and mustered into service February 17, 1864. The command left Detroit March 28, 1864, under command of Lieut. Col. Bennett, and reported at Annapolis early in April, where it remained until ordered to Hilton Head, S. C .. April 19, 1864. Its first engagement was at Baldwin, Fla., August 8, 1864, and its last field day at Singleton's Plantation, S. C., April 19, 1865. The command was discharged at Detroit, October 17, 1865. Martin Stephenson died at Beaufort, S. C., Octo- ber 7, 1864.

Discharged .-- George H. Griggs, 1865; Thomas B. Brown, 1865; Samuel Bryant, 1865; Gilbert Burress, 1865; John Clemmins, 1865; Charles Livar, 1865; Samuel Smith, 1865; George W. Lett, 1865; George Aiken, 1865; Ely Trice, 1865.

SOLDIERS' AND SAILORS' CONVENTION.

A convention of soldiers and sailors of the United States was held at the court house in the city of St. Clair, on Monday, the 27th day of August, 1866, for the purpose of organizing a Soldiers' and Sailors' Union, having for its object the maintenance of their best interests, the fostering of that spirit of patriotism which led them forth to battle for their country, to secure a proper recognition of their just claims, to procure employment in the general pursuits of life for themselves and their comrades in arms who may need assistance, to extend to mem- bers who by reason of wounds, sickness or other misfortunes are prevented from pursuing their usual employments, and to the widows and orphans of fallen comrades such aid as will allevi- ate their necessities, and further to urge upon the Government and people the just claims of honorably discharged soldiers and sailors, and the care and protection of the widows and or- phans of those who sacrificed their lives in the service of their country.

The call was made July 31, 1866. Every honorably discharged soldier and sailor in the county of St. Clair was earnestly requested to attend the convention and assist in the formation of a Union for the mutual benefit of all who have stood shoulder to shoulder in their country's service.

The organizers are named as follows: S. B. Brown, Eleventh Michigan Cavalry; William Sanborn, Twenty-second Michigan Infantry; N. S. Boynton, Eighth Michigan Cavalry; H. P. Wands, Twenty-second Michigan Infantry; M. H. Miles, Eleventh Michigan Cavalry; William B. Morse, Fourth Michigan Infantry; Joseph Armstrong, Second Michigan Cavalry; T. P.

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Miles, Eleventh Michigan Cavalry; A. C. Buffington, Thirteenth Michigan Infantry; W. H. Dumphy, Tenth Michigan Infantry; George W. Buchanan, Second Michigan Cavalry; W. H. Hartsuff, Tenth Michigan Infantry; Albert H. Landon, United States Navy; J. C. Kuhn, United States Navy; William H. Hart, United States Navy; Ambrose Caswell, United States Navy; Richard H. Rogers, United States Navy; Oliver Morton, United States Navy; William Clenden- ing, United States Navy; John W. Lewis, United States Navy; A. S. Hayward, United States Navy; N. S. Boyton, Eighth Michigan Cavalry; James Hagter, Eighth Michigan Cavalry; John Jones, Twenty-second Michigan Infantry; Franklin Northrop, Eighth Michigan Cavalry; Oliver Durant, Second Michigan Infantry; Thomas W. Main, Twenty-second Michigan Infantry; James Robertson, Twenty- second Michigan Infantry; Charles A. Hayward, Eighth Michigan Cavalry; Martin Bringham, Eighth Michigan Cavalry; Samuel Fitzgerald, Third Michigan Infantry.

The convention elected Gen. S. B. Brown, President; Col. John Atkinson, Vice President; Sergt. Patterson, Recording Secretary; Lieut. E. G. Spaulding, Corresponding Secretary, and Col. Henry Whiting, Treasurer.

SOLDIERS AND SAILORS OF MACOMB AND ST. CLAIR.

This organization of veterans may be numbered among the great military associations of the United States. Its re-unions are characterized by a desire to do honor to the past, to keep the memory of fallen comrades green, to lay down precedents for the future. The society may be said to date its organization from August 31, 1871, when the members of the Twenty-second Michigan Infantry assembled at Romeo, and elected the following officers: President, Gen. William Sanborn, of Port Huron; First Vice President, Col. H. S. Dean, of Ann Arbor; Second Vice President, Prof. O. D. Thompson, of Lapeer; Secretary, Lieut. E. G. Spauld- ing, of Port Huron; Treasurer, Capt. G. W. Robertson, of Mt. Clemens; Orator, Lieut. Irv. ing D. Hanscom, of Romeo. Capt. Edgar Weeks delivered the oration on that occasion. The re-unions of the Twenty-second and Fifth Michigan Infantry, and of the Eighth Michigan Cavalry, since that time have been held at various places in Macomb, St. Clair and Oakland Counties. The following poem, by William H. Clark, was read before the veterans assembled at Mt. Clemens, August 31, 1881:

"Why meet we comrades, here to-day? Why gather friends; why this display? War's rude alarms are past and gone, No more we hear the warlike drum, Or fife's shrill cry.

" Why burnish up our memories here? What joys or sorrows are so near, That wake to life scenes of the past, Exciting scenes, dissolving fast In days of fear?

"Full twenty years have passed away, The time seems short, aye, but a day, The martyred Lincoln called for men Our glorious Union to maintain, The Nation's stay.

" A Union which our fathers wrought, A land for us so dearly bought, In days when men were sorely tried, Who pledged their all, and nobly died, Not all for nought.

" Columbia's sons, O know ye not That traitors would with hideous blot, Disgrace the Flag that patriots made, Strike out the stars thereon displayed, In fearful fray?

" O hear ye not those threat'ning tones, Now drawing nearer to your homes, Observe ye not the coming storm, Now bursting near with loud alarm? Then why delay?

"Sons of Macomb, and broad St. Clair, O see ye not that fearful glare? Which lighteth up Fort Sumter's wall, The opening strife on Southern soil, O do not stay.

" But rally, sons of noble sires, Light up your homes with patriot fires, Wave high the Starry Banner, high, And swear its fealty to stand by, Tho' death has sway.

"Now Wayne, St. Clair and old Macomb, With Oakland, Saginaw and Livingston, And Shiawassee, all arise, The fighting Fifth to organize, And march away.

" In early day, down to the front, To meet the foe, the battle's brunt, Its record shining mid the storm, We weep to find four hundred gone, So brave and true.

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"And the gallant Twenty-second, too, Bravely into the breach it flew, On many a hot and bloody ground, Nobly fighting, always found. A good name wins.

" While mem'ry brings years that have fled, Forget not those now with the dead, Who bore with us the strife and heat; On silent camping grounds they sleep, With arms at rest.

"And next, the hardy Eighth comes on, To breast the waves of secession, With sturdy ranks and hearts so true, John Morgan's troops to interview And gain the day.

"It is with joy, comrades. this day That we here meet, in peaceful way, And in each face reflecting bright, Preserved, though scarred from war's sad blight, All hail this day.

"And we surviving comrades now, With wrinkles gathering on each brow, In mutual toil, privations met, The crown of victory there is set, Without display.

" A country saved, united land, A Union worthy to command True freedom in its broadest sense

' Liberty and Union' its defense, Hail, glorious land."

The meeting held at Mt Clemens in September, 1881, was, perhaps, the largest and most enthusiastic of all the happy re-unions of Michigan troops. Among the guests were Capt. W. F. Atkinson, Col. Wormer, Col. W. D. Wilkins, Col. Duffield, Col. Pulford, and others, of De- troit; Col. Dean, of Ann Arbor; Chaplain Jacokes, of Pontiac; George F. Lewis, and others from home and abroad. Several old battle flags stood upon the stage, among them the torn banner of the Old Fifth. Col. Farrar was President of the Day. Mayor Russell made an ad- dress of greeting in which he cordially welcomed the visitors. He considered that Mt. Clem- ens was honored by their presence; the homes and hospitalities of her people were at their dis- posal. The Mayor touched upon the pleasures of the re-union, principal among such being the renewing of old friendships formed amid the trials of war, the recital of the experiences of camp and field. Veterans of the Fifth could fight again Fair Oaks and the Wilderness, while the hearts of the Twenty-second would warm once more as they told of Chattanooga.

Capt. W. F. Atkinson delivered the following oration:

" We are again together, not so many as of old, not so young as we were, but with the same true hearts, with the same love for our country, and willing, if necessary, to risk our lives for its preservation.

" As the good citizens of Mt. Clemens kindly entertain us, we will renew the friendships of the camp, and march, and battle field, turn back on memory's golden wings and call up faces long since among the missing, tramp again over the hard stone roads and hills of Kentucky, Tennessee and Virginia, and sing once more the good old songs that echoed so sweetly on the Southern air.

" At times like this we can forget the bones that ached and the heels that were blistered, and remember the camps in beautiful groves and the mellow squeak of the Confederate shoat, as a bayonet sacrificed him on the altar of liberty. The delicious odor of boiled hen and sweet- potatoes comes to me now as sweetly fragrant as the rose, while the flame from the top rail curls gracefully round the camp kettle, and soars upward to the clouds where the spirits of departed foragers whiff it with joy. We will be boys again for a day and let the world take care of itself.

" Michigan sent none but good regiments to the war, and none of them did her more honor than the ones you represent.

"There is in the hearts of the people a great love for and pride in the Fighting Fifth. Its glorious record commenced early in the war, and on every battle-field of Virginia new laurals were won. One by one, sometimes hundreds at a time, brave men fell from its ranks, but al-

1 ways with their faces to the foe. Its flag was ever seen in the thickest of the fight, and was never lowered. Many a brave man's blood was given for that flag, and it is to-day, torn and tattered though it be, one of the fairest jewels in Michigan's crown of glory.

"'Tattered, torn is the beautiful flag For which our brothers fought and fell;

Tattered, it looks like a very rag, That flag they loved so well.

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"' But when on resurrection morn · Gabriel sounds the reveille, In answer to the Angel's horn A gallant sight you'll see.

" 'For once again the Fighting Fifth Their glorious banner high shall lift And place it where in Heavenly hall 'Twill wave the proudest of them all.'

"I can see some of the boys smile at the idea of Col. Farrar and Maj. Mathews becoming angels, but you know Heaven's ramparts are to be stormed when taken, and the old regiment will go at them and over them as it did over the rebel breastworks at Cold Harbor, at North Anna, at the Wilderness and at Petersburg where its flag was first to wave on the rebel works. "On a May day nineteen years ago the ladies of Mt. Clemens presented to a cavalry regi- ment then just organized, a silken flag. On its face shone a star for every State. It was the flag of Washington, of Jackson, of human liberty-the stars and stripes; and as the eloquent tongue of your honored citizen, Robert P. Eldredge, told them to take and protect that banner for the sake of themselves, their homes, and the generations yet to be, every man of the gallant Eighth vowed to shield it with his life; and well they kept that vow. The regiment was bap- tized in blood before it was out a week. It captured John Morgan. It swept over Kentucky and Tennessee, carrying death in its path to the rebel foe. The mountains of Georgia heard the clatter of its horses' hoofs. It was with Stoneman at the Chattahoochie, and Macon, and it faced Longstreet day by day, when the Union army fell back on Knoxville. It was in thirty- nine battles, and the soil of four States has been made holy by the blood of its men. What has become of its beautiful flag I do not know, but the ladies who gave it did not trust in vain. Men of the Eighth Calvary, you may well feel proud of your old regiment, and I did not wonder when I heard that your brave old comrade, Col. Wormer, claims that it is higher honor to be a member of the Eighth than to wear the stars of a Major General.

"Of the Twenty-second Michigan, what can I say that will even faintly do justice to that splendid regiment? Its men are dearer to my heart than those of any other, for I shared with them the many joys and sorrows of a soldier's life. I saw them as with proud steps and gal- lant bearing they filed out of the fair ground at Pontiac. No body of men were ever better calculated for their work, and never in the trying scenes of the war did they falter in the line of duty. I saw them day by day, on the march and in the camp, on the skirmish line and in the battle, do honor to their country and their State. They helped drive the rebels from Ken- tucky. They marched with Rosecrans through Tennessee. They forced their way over the mountains of Northern Georgia and reached Chickamauga to find the Union army on the re- treat badly beaten and demoralized. They were ordered to the front to stop the onward march of the victorious rebels while the rest of the army formed a new line. You all know the history of their terrible fight. You have heard of the gallant charge they made, how,

"'Stormed at by shot and shell, Nobly they fought, and well.'

How five times 'Longstreet's victorious troops were hurled against them and five times driven back. You have heard how Col. Sanborn led the regiment in its brilliant charge, and you know that round that flag fought and fell that day some of Michigan's bravest men, and how at last, its ammunition gone, it was surrounded and the remnant of that heroic band taken prisoners. You have heard of their sufferings in the prisons of the South, and when you hear of the Twenty-second you may all feel proud, for

"'Sons of Macomb and broad St. Clair And Oakland's rolling fields were there,'

and as long as the Union lives their names will be remembered in honor."

Upon the conclusion of the speaking the associations met at their headquarters and held business meetings.

The Fifth, of which there were 150 members present, elected officers as follows: Presi-

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dent, W. D. Wilkins; First Vice President, E. H. Shook; Second Vice President, De Witt Walker; Third Vice President, D. Owen; Secretary, T. J. West; Treasurer, D. P. Rose; His- torian, H. K. Sweet.

The Twenty-second, 167 members present, elected the following officers; President, A. M. Keeler; First Vice President, S. C. Mead; Second Vice President, A. P. McConnell; Sec- retary, A. E. Collins; Treasurer, J. J. Snook.

The Eighth Cavalry, 90 members, elected: President, J. H. Riggs; First Vice President, G. S. Wormer; Second Vice President, A. E. Calkins; Third Vice President, H. C. Wells; Fourth Vice President, W. L. Buck; Treasurer, C. Crowely; Secretary, T. M. Birdsall; Histo- rian, J. M. Lamb; Orator, W. H. Clark; Corresponding Secretary, R. F. Allen.

The Macomb and St. Clair Association, 200 members present, elected officers as follows: President, William H. Clark; First Vice President, Peter Churchill; Second Vice President, James Smith; Third Vice President, Porter Beebe; Fourth Vice President, William Jenney; Secretary and Treasurer, E. A. Jennings. Among the Presidents of the Macomb and St. Clair Association as organized in June, 1877, were Col. Sanborn, Major A. M. Keeler, Col. J. S. Farrar, and the present President-William H. Clark, Jr. The association was formed in 1877 by fifty-one soldiers of this district, to which number seventy-six have been added.

THE SOLDIERS' AND SAILORS' RE-UNION.

The annual re-union of the Macomb and St. Clair Counties Soldiers' and Sailors' Associa- tion and Companies H and I, of the Fourth Michigan Volunteer Infantry, was held at Arma- da, August 25, 1882. A large delegation of citizens and ex-soldiers, headed by the Capac Band, with Prof. A. M. Keeler as Marshal of the Day, and P. B. Kade and Amos Finch as As- sistants, met the incoming morning trains, and upon the arrival of which a procession was formed and a line of march taken through the principal streets to the Baptist Church, where a speech of welcome was made by H. H. Spencer, Esq., President of the village, and responded to by William H. Clark, Jr., President of the Macomb and St. Clair Counties Association. A prayer by Rev. H. N. Bissell was followed by an address by Capt. P. C. Goodell, of Detroit, who was followed by the Hon. Dexter Mussey, Rev. Mr. Young, of Romeo, and others. The ex- ercises at the church being concluded, the procession formed in the same order and marched to the hall of H. H. Spencer, where an excellent dinner had been prepared by the ladies of Ar- mada and vicinity, which was partaken of with a hearty relish.

After dinner, speeches were made by W. H. Clark, Jr., and others. The exercises were in- terspersed with music by the band, and the general verdict was that the re-union was a grand success.

At the business meeting of the Macomb and St. Clair Association, the following business was transacted : Hon. Dexter Mussey, Capt. P. H. Goodell and Rev. N. N. Bissell were elected honorary members of the Association.

Next came the election of officers, which resulted as follows : President, H. C. Mansfield, of Port Huron City; First Vice President, J. S. Farrar, of Mount Clemens; Second Vice Pres- ident, A. M. Keeler, of Richmond; Third Vice President, Andrew Latenbooker, of New Haven; Secretary and Treasurer, Moses F. Carleton, of Port Huron City.

OUR COUNTRY'S DEFENDERS.

A meeting was held June 25, 1881, for the purpose of organizing an encampment of "Our Country's Defenders." The following officers were elected : Commander, E. G. Spalding; Lieutenant Commander, E. B. Taylor; Adjutant, E. S. Post; Quartermaster, George K. Nairn; Surgeon, H. R. Mills; Chaplain, M. F. Carleton; Officer of the Day, N. C. White; Officer of the Guard, J. W. Burns; Outpost, Hiram Mann.

THE GUARDS.

The Port Huron Guards had forty-five men in the parade and sham battle at Detroit, dur- ing the re-union of the Army of the Potomac, in June, 1882. The following was the prize drill roster:

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Capt. S. H. Avery, First Lieut. T. J. Hutchinson, Second Lieut. George Phillips, First Sergt. N. C. White, Second Sergt. William Stapleton, Third Sergt. F. H. Tuttle, Fourth Sergt. C. C. Richardson, Fifth Sergt. E. E. Flynn, First Corp. John Fitzpatrick, Third Corp. John W. Dempster, Fifth Corp. H. Kaumeier, Sixth Corp. G. W. Boynton, Seventh Corp. Charles Phillips. Privates-John Burns, C. C. Casler, L. Casler, William Chadwick, Edward Deery, Thomas Fish, Maurice Goodman, B. E. Hall, E. E. Hall, Samuel Hussen, Charles Howes, George F. King, George Kaumeier. William Kessel. Cyrus McCain, W. J. Mulford, G. C. Mei- sel, A. B. McCollom, Robert McNicol, John Mckenzie, E. S. Post, E. S. Petit, Edwin Toft, Frank J. White. The history of this command is given in the sketch of Port Huron City.

PHIL SHERIDAN'S HORSE.

This celebrated horse was sold by A. P Sexton for $90 to Russell Leonard, who sold him to his son W. Leonard. The latter broke the horse to harness and used him to haul wood to Port Huron, until he sold him to Mr. Inslee. Mr. Leonard lives in the town of Burtchville (at at that time Grant), on the Comstock road, about three miles from Lakeport. The horse was bought at Port Huron by E. J. Inslee, for Col. Campbell, for $175. From the fact that the horse was sent to Col. Campbell, at Grand Rapids, where he first saw it, the General evidently supposed that it was purchased at Grand Rapids. He was purchased from a Mr. Leonard who now lives back of Lakeport, in the town of Burtchville, in this county, and who had obtained him from a Mr. Sexton, at that time living in Lakeport, but now in Ohio. Previous to selling him, Leonard had driven "John." as he was then called by his owner, but little, yet he was re- garded as a horse of great promise, and known in the country near his owner's home as the " Leonard colt." He was a horse that one would not forget after seeing him once. So marked was his appearance that A. McDonald, of Lakeport, who was a member of the Sixth Cavalry, and in the fight when Sheridan came "riding down the valley," tells us that as " gallant Phil" dashed down the lines after his twenty miles' ride, though not knowing that Col. Camp- bell had presented the horse to his chief, he (McDonald) turned to his nearest comrade, a fel- low-townsman, with the remark: "That horse that Sheridan is riding, is the one that Archie Campbell took out from Port Huron. It's the Leonard colt sure, though he has grown a lit- tle."

CONCLUSION.

In the foregoing pages, the writer has essayed to give a measure of justice to the soldiers of St. Clair. Of those who labored at home, something must also be said. Immediately suc- ceeding the commencement of hostilities, the ladies of the county became thoroughly imbued with a sense of that dut, which they owed to their country; they formed societies of aid to the sick and wounded soldiers of the army, and so organized themselves as to be able to render most effective service. The citizens whose days for field service ended with the close of the first half of the century, acted well their parts at home. Their co-operation with the State Mili- tary Board resulted in most important aid to the Republic.

The history of the times is one which speaks of duty done. The troops of St. Clair, attached to the various regiments sent forward from Michigan, were soldiers in the full accep- tation of the term. When they are considered, with what pride may their fellow-citizens and relatives look back to the seventh decade of the nineteenth century, when such a number of gallant men went forth to offer themselves upon the altars of patriotism -- to preserve the Re- public. The most terrible fate threatened the truest federalization upon the earth. A visible enemy from within, aided by unnumbered enemies of Liberty from without, entered into a con- spiracy to destroy all that which the Revolution acquired for us. The soldiers who combated the powers of the conspirators. who beat down every obstacle which the wealth of the slave- holders and their aristocratic allies placed before them, must Jive for ever in the hearts of the people. The soldiers of 1861-65, have, next to those of Lexington and Yorktown, left names which can never die so long as memory lives; they left precedents, illustrious examples, which the present and the future must always observe when the Republic is threatened. Let the people follow in their tracks, and transmit from generation to generation, a land of illimitable possibilities, a patriotism incorruptible, a government at once strong and just, and a set of public principles honorable to the age, that so, happiness may reign in every home within the Union, and teach the outside world the value of Freedom. 26

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History of St. Clair County, Michigan, containing an account of its settlement, growth, development and resources, its war record, biographical sketches, the whole preceded by a history of Michigan, Part 61

Author: Publication date: 1883 Publisher: Chicago, A.T. Andreas & Co. Number of Pages: 818

Author:
Publication date: 1883
Publisher: Chicago, A.T. Andreas & Co.
Number of Pages: 818