Tom Vossler to learn the story of the three-day Battle of Gettysburg through a selection of their favorite monuments. The two have been giving tours of Gettysburg battlefield for many years and co ...

McConnell of the 24th Michigan Infantry, whose regiment and the Iron Brigade to which it belonged had been forced to retreat from McPherson’s Ridge on the west side of Gettysburg. As the blue ...

The 24th regiment was formed in 1862 shortly after the start of the Civil War. The Union had a number of defeats and Lincoln called for the states to muster more soldiers. Michigan Gov Blair ...

For most Civil War soldiers, disease claimed the lives of men more often than actual combat did, Rembisz said. The opposite was true for the 24th Michigan Infantry, which had higher losses on the ...

Michigan played a prominent role in the war, as did the men who would eventually make their homes in the small town of Midland. In the Battle of Gettysburg from July 1to 3, 1863, the 24th Michigan ...

BAY CITY, MI -- A Civil War veteran and Bay City hotel proprietor who died in 1907 had his headstone rededicated on Memorial Day. Henry Schindehette, of Company I of the 24th Michigan Infantry ...

I recalled President Abraham Lincoln’s Gettysburg Address as I stood in ... Only about a third of the 24th Michigan’s flag remains, shot through 23 times on the battlefield where 95,000 ...

“We are doing a re-dedication for a soldier in the 24th Michigan Infantry,” said Mikolaiczik ... Plymouth First United Methodist Church. That Civil War soldier, Charles R.

Tom Vossler to learn the story of the three-day Battle of Gettysburg through a selection of their favorite monuments. The two have been giving tours of Gettysburg battlefield for many years and co ...