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Before the Civil War, President James Buchanan took a weak position amid a looming South secession crisis. [1] Secretary of State Lewis Cass of Michigan, a 78-year-old elder statesman who had been Michigan's U.S. senator and governor of Michigan Territory, resigned from Buchanan's cabinet in protest, remarking that "he had seen the Constitution born and now feared he was seeing it die".
The 4th Michigan Infantry Regiment was an infantry regiment that served in the Union Army during the American Civil War. The 4th Michigan wore a very Americanized zouave uniform. This uniform consisted of a Federal dark blue 4 button sack coat, dark blue chasseur trousers, tan gaiters, and a maroon zouave fez with a light blue tassel.
The 5th Michigan Cavalry Regiment was a cavalry regiment that served in the Union Army during the American Civil War. It was a part of the famed Michigan Brigade , commanded for a time by Brigadier General George Armstrong Custer .
I have co-authored with Mary Johna Wein, ‘Soldiers Untold: Biographies of Civil War Soldiers from Wyandotte, Michigan,’ also, a history of the 18th Michigan Infantry,” Bertera said.Mike ...
The Civil War Archive; Haley, Private John W., The Rebel Yell & the Yankee Hurrah: The Civil War Journal of a Maine Volunteer, Down East Books (Camden, Maine), 1985. This is a journal about the 17th Maine Volunteer Infantry Regiment. The 5th Michigan was in the same brigade and references are made regarding the whereabouts of the 5th.
The 1st Michigan Engineers and Mechanics Regiment was an engineer regiment that served in the Union Army during the American Civil War. There were only ten other similar regiments in the Union Army. The Michigan unit was one of three engineering regiments raised in 1861, the other two being Missouri (August 1861) and New York (September 1861).
It was mustered into U.S. service as the 16th Regiment, Michigan Volunteer Infantry on Sept. 8, 1861 with an enrollment of 761 officers and men. The Regiment left Detroit for Washington, D.C., on Sept. 16, 1861 to join Butterfield's Brigade, Fitz John Porter's Division, Army of the Potomac .
Battery "H" 1st Michigan Light Artillery Regiment also known as 8th Battery Michigan Light Artillery, was an artillery battery from Michigan that served in the Union Army during the American Civil War. The unit also went by the name De Golyer's Battery or De Golyer's 8th Michigan Battery after its commander, Captain Samuel De Golyer.