Record Group 57

Michigan and the Civil War

Finding Aid

 

Entry 1: Books

Shelf 119

Belknap, Charles E., History of the Michigan Organizations at Chickamauga, Chattanooga, and Missionary Ridge, 1863 (2 copies)

Ellis, Helen H., Michigan in the civil War: A Guide to the Material in Detroit Newspapers 1861-1866

Genco, James G., To the Sound Of Musketry and the Tap of the Drum (2006.014.01)

Michigan and the Civil War: An Anthology (2002.118.02)

Michigan at Gettysburg, July 1^st, 2^nd, and 3^rd, 1863. June 12^th, 1889

Michigan Soldiers and Sailors, Alphabetical Index, Civil War, 1861-1865

Nolan, Alan T., The Iron Brigade: A Military History

Record of Service of Michigan Volunteers in the Civil War1861-1865, Vol. 43Engineers and Mechanics

Record of Service of Michigan Volunteers in the Civil War1861-1865, Vol.33 Third Michigan Cavalry

Record of Service of Michigan Volunteers in the Civil War1861-1865, Vol. 24 Twenty-Fourth Michigan Infantry

Record of Service of Michigan Volunteers in the Civil War1861-1865, Vol. 2 Second Michigan Infantry

Record of Service of Michigan Volunteers in the Civil War1861-1865Vol. 1 First Michigan Infantry

Record of Service of Michigan Volunteers in the Civil War 1861-1865, Vol. 4 Fourth Michigan Infantry (2006.092.01)

Record of Service of Michigan Volunteers in the Civil War 1861-1865, Vol. 5 Fifth Michigan Infantry (2006.092.02)

Robertson, Jno., Michigan in the War (4 copies)

War Papers-Michigan Commandery L.L., Vol. I-October 6, 1886-April 6, 1893, 1993 (Acc. #2006.004.02)

War Papers-Michigan Comandery L.L., Vol. II-December 7, 1893-May 5, 1898 (Acc. #2006.004.04)

 

Entry 2: Pamphlets

Shelf 119

Brown, Ida C., Michigan Men in the Civil War (2001.061.01)

Brown, Ida C., Michigan Men in the Civil War, Supplement 1959

Brown, Ida C., Michigan Men in the Civil War, Supplement 1960

Brown, Ida C., Michigan Men in the Civil War, Supplement 1966

Effects of the Civil War on Farming in Michigan (2 copies)

Facts About the Civil War

Freitag, Alfred J., Detroit in the Civil War

Impact of the Civil War on the Presbyterian Church in Michigan (2 copies)  (2005.105.01& 2007.119.07)

Katz, Irving I., The Jewish Soldier From Michigan in the Civil War

Michigan Civil War Monuments

Michigan Institutions of Higher Learning in the Civil War

Michigan Women in the Civil War

Petz, Dr. Weldon, Michigan’s Monumental Tributes to Abraham Lincoln

Pooler, Nelson, Memoirs of the Civil War

Pooler, Nelson, Recollections of Civil War Days

The Methodist Episcopal Church in Michigan During the Civil War

Williams, Frederick D., Michigan Soldiers in the Civil War

Williams, Frederick D., Michigan Soldiers in the Civil War (2002.118.01)

 

Entry 3: Magazines

Shelf 19

Michigan History Magazine, Civil War Collectors Issue

 

Entry 4: Photographs

Map Case 3, Drawer 6

Fifty men in uniforms with guns

Unidentified man in uniform

 

Entry 5: Newspapers

Map Case 3, Drawer 6

Publication/ date unknown. Photo of W. H. Moore, commander of Ortonville Post, G.A.R.

The Plymouth Mail, September 7, 1917, lists names of soldiers and remarks.

 

Entry 6: Civil War Rosters of Michigan Men

Vertical File 9101

Elmwood Cemetery and the Civil War

First Michigan Engineers and Mechanics, Veteran Association, Revised Roster 1898

Fleischman, John, The Object at Hand, The Smithsonian, Dec. 1996

Foner, Eric, The South’s Inner Civil War, American Heritage Magazine, March 1989

The Untold Story of the Civil War: After 100 years-A look at the facts, U.S. News and World Reports, April 17, 1961

Weeks, James, The Civil War’s Greatest Scoop, American Heritage Magazine, July/August 1989

 

Entry 7: Civil War Centennial

Vertical File 9103

Civil War Commission Reports, 1962

Haight, Floyd L. Letter re: Michigan Civil War Centennial Observance Commission, March 9, 1962

May, George, Michigan in the Civil War, 100 Years Ago, A chronology prepared for the Michigan Civil War Centennial Observance Commission, 1962

Michigan Round Table Reports, 1962

Michigan’s Civil War Markers, Memorials, and Monuments, 1962

Minutes of the meeting of Michigan Civil War Centennial Observance Commission, July 14, 1962

Michigan’s Role in the Civil War, Detroit News Sunday Pictorial, Centennial 1861 – 1961,

Acc # 89.34.18L

 

Entry 8: Civil War: Letters

Vertical File 9106

To Brother and Sister from Purdy Grand Rapids Jan. 11, 1852,

Partial letter 1852, to/from unknown

To Emogene from Mort. A. Farmer, undated

To Emogene from Mort. A. Farmer, Oct. 19, 1862

To Emogene from Mort. A. Farmer, November 11, 1862

To J. S. Showers from William E. Showers, March 18, 1863

To J. S. Showers from William E. Showers, March 19, 1863

To Emogene from Mort. A. Farmer, June 6, 1863

To brother Stevens from Joseph Stevens, Nov. 8, 1863

To Emogene from Mort. A. Farmer, Dec. 6, 1863

To Willie Scattergood from Carrie Scattergood, Feb. 16, 1865

To Harriet and Edward Stevens from Joseph Stevens, Mar 8, 1864

To Mrs. Corbin from Andrew Moffitt, March 21, 1864

To Friend George, from Hopkin Williams, March 24, 1864

To Friend George, from Hopkin Williams, April 19, 1864

To Friend George, from Hopkin Williams, July 23, (probably 1864)

To Genie from M. G. Laphern, March 28, 1868

To Uncle and Aunt from M.W. R___(?) date unknown

To Aunt Ruth from M.W. R___(?) date unknown

 

Entry 9: Civil War Associations

Vertical File 9107

“Civil War group moves to Plymouth,” Observer & Eccentric

“Ready, take aim, fire!” Observer &b Eccentric, September 3, 1979

Program from “Michigan at Gettysburg” talk by Ed Bears

Roster of First Michigan Engineers and Mechanics Veteran Association, 1910

“A Proud Heritage,” from Daughters of Union Veterans of the Civil War

Roster and notes from Sons of Union Veterans of the Civil War, 1986

“Michigan in the Civil War-100 Years Ago”

Copies of Civil War veterans’ ribbons

“The Army Post,” newsletter from Michigan Civil War Re-Enactment Assoc.

“Rally Round the Flag,” from the Clarence M. Burton Memorial Lecture

“Sons of Union Veterans of the Civil War Opens Camp in Dearborn”

 

 

Entry 10: Abraham Lincoln Civil War Round Table

Vertical File 9113

Minutes from organization’s meetings from Nov. 26, 1963 to Nov. 19, 1969

 

 

 

 

Entry 11: Civil War: 17^th Michigan Infantry

Vertical File 9117

“’The Normal Company’ in the War of the Rebellion-17^th Michigan Infantry Company E” (3 copies)

Oregon Township United Methodist Church service of remembrance for Frederick Alber, November 13, 1999

“Tribute to Civil War Hero Frederick Alber,” November 10, 1999

Typed manuscript of “Letters and Diaries of Irwin W. Shepard”, 1862 – 1864, Acc # 2006.185.01

 

Entry 12: Civil War: 4^th Michigan Cavalry

Vertical File 9118

4^th Michigan Cavalry roster

“A Reconnoissance to Within Ten Miles of Richmond,” Detroit Free Press, August, 1862

Weldon, Ralph, “Ephraim Truesdell and the 4^th Michigan Cavalry”

Misc.

Gibney, Abbott M., “Your Affectionate Son”: The Civil War Letters of Frank E. Lansing, Michigan History, 1974

Poem sent to Joseph Cray (?) by his father

 

Entry 13: Civil War: Michigan Connections

Vertical File 9115

Gibney, Abbott M., “’Your Affectionate Son’: The Civil War Letters of Frank E. Lansing,” Michigan History, Spring, 1974 (Acc. #75.206.11)

Information on 24^th Michigan statue and the artist, Gary Castel

“The Michiganders earn their ‘Black Hats’”

Fennimore, Jean Joy L., “Austin Blair: Civil War Governor, 1861-1862,” Michigan History,  September, 1965 (Acc. #82.49.26L)

Fennimore, Jean Joy L., “Austin Blair: Civil War Governor, 1863-1864,” Michigan History, December, 1965 (Acc. #82.49.25L)

Herdman, Gerald G., “Secession, Salt Pork, Surgeons, and Sin”

Stover, John F., “Publications of the Michigan Civil War Centennial Observance Commission,” Michigan History, Spring, 1967

“Book Reviews” Michigan History, June, 1966

Blackburn, George M., ”Letters to the Front: A Distaff View of the Civil War,” Michigan History  (Acc. #82.54.9L)

“Book Reviews and Notes”

Ellis, Helen H., “Robertson’s Michigan in the War: A Review Article,” Michigan History, June, 1966

Starr, Stephen Z., “The Second Michigan Volunteer Cavalry Another View,” Michigan History, Summer, 1976 (Acc. #82.49.27L)

Dean, Eric T., “A Scene of Surpassing Terror and Awful Grandeur: The Paradoxes of Military Service in the American Civil War,” Michigan Historical Review, Fall, 1995

Macmillan, Margaret Burnham, “The Methodist Church and the Civil War”

Record of Service of Michigan Volunteers in the Civil War, 1861-1865 (2 copies)

“Marvin Bogart: A Survivor of Andersonville,” The Wixom Wire February, 1986

“She Comes of Fighting Stock,” Spirit of Salem, January-March, 2000

“Governors of Michigan: Russell A. Alger, 1885-1886,” Green Oak Historian, February, 1992

Draft notice of Richard Bagot of Elk Rapids

“Update on Civil War Veterans,” Signpost, June, 2000

Hendrickson, Merle, “Oceana County Goes to War”

“Canton’s Civil War Soldiers Remembered”

“Peace and New Problems: 1865-1872

List of soldiers who enlisted from Plymouth from 1861-1865 (2 copies)

“Michigan in the Civil War: ‘Michigan Men on the Sultana’”

Curtis, David, “Osceola Bagley,” Canton Historical Society Newsletter, July/Aug. 2000

“Wish You Were Here,” Observer & Eccentric, July 20, 1995

“The search for J.S.,” Livingston County Press, May 14, 1975

“Last of the Old and 2 of the New Salute Their Lost Buddies” (Acc. #82.70.11L)

“Nurse’s Diary,” Observer & Eccentric, January 24, 1994

“Civil War Historian Tracks Soldier’s Identity,” Royal Oak Tribune, November 14, 1975

“Book captures local flavor of Civil War,” Detroit News, March 5, 2000

“Civil War historian tracked down ‘J.S.’,” Plymouth Observer, April 7, 1997

“Civil War Veterans ‘adopted’,” Detroit News, December 14, 1998

Chronicle, Winter, 1982

“Canton’s Civil War Soldiers Remembered”

Lists of soldiers of various Michigan companies (2 different lists)

“The Life of Hazen S. Pingree,” Detroit News, January 3, 1932

Jacob Merritt Howard info

“When Johnny Comes Marching Home” lyrics with added lyrics by Julie Fountain

“Raymond Herek speaking on: ‘The First Michigan Sharpshooters’,” AACWRT Newsletter, October, 2001

“Michigan in the Civil War,” AACWRT Newsletter, September, 2001

Michigan’s Civil War Scrapbook series newspaper articles (Acc. #89.34.1L- #89.34.17L)

            How Michigan Troops Seized Jefferson Davis

            How 2 Lansing Officers Helped Capture Booth

            How State’s Home Front Kept Busy

            All Michigan Went Wild When Gen. Lee Gave Up

            When the Confederates Sailed the Detroit River

            Michigan Farmer Views War in the Front Lines

            John Clem, the Drummer Boy of Shiloh

            The Woman Who Fought in the Union Front Lines

            Michigan’s Upper Peninsula and Its Role in the Civil War

            Capt. Withington’s Diary of 1^st Michigan Infantry

            Detroit Gets Union SOS

            Lincoln Calls Men to Arms

            WAR Meetings!

 

Entry 14: Teacher’s Lesson Plans

Shelf 119

“Oh, Could They But Speak!” includes lessons, video, & student worksheets about history and importance of Michigan’s Civil War battle flags. (Acc. #2007.119.03)

 

Compiled by Lena Packer, 17 August 2006