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Civil War

Time Period...
12 April 1861 ~ 9 April 1865
Please do not copy the photos on this site, many of which have been submitted by private individuals... 
just come back and visit the site often to view the photos.
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Click for:
​~ Emmet County Civil War Memorial Parks ~

​Civil War Memorial ~ Arlington Park

Civil War Memorial ~ Pennsylvania Park

Emmet County Michigan Civil War Home Page

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​~ CIVIL WAR FACTS ~

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9 February 1905 ~ Pellston Journal
~ Lincoln's Bodyguard ~
Picture23 May 1933 ~ Petoskey Evening New

~ Lincoln Death Mask ~
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8 February 1912 ~ The Petoskey Record
Mrs. Lincoln's Shawl On Display In Petoskey  ~ 1963
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14 February 1963 ~ Petoskey News Review
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14 February 1963 ~ Petoskey News Review

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23 May 1907 ~ Pellston Journal

Two Articles Below: Simon Sleet of Boyne City, Michigan, a former slave,
​who took up arms with the Northern Army, passed away at 104 years old in 1940.
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17 March 1936 ~ Petoskey Evening News
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15 March 1940 ~ Petoskey Evening News

Photo/Text Below: Civil War Nurses were "Angels of Mercy"
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24 September 1936 ~ Petoskey Evening News

Observance started after the Civil War: MEMORIAL DAY... A Time Set Aside to Remember
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22 May 1987 ~ Petoskey News Review

Click for: 
Traverse Region
Historical and Descriptive
,

WITH
ILLUSTRATIONS OF SCENERY
AND

Portraits and Biographical Sketches
OF SOME OF ITS

Prominent Men and Pioneers.


Chicago:
H. R. Page & Co.
1884
Page 220 of the above linked book states:
"... April 15, 1875, the remainder of the county [Emmet] was thrown open to actual settlers. At that time the white population of the county was about 150. The Grand Rapids & Indiana Railroad had just opened a highway of travel and transportation through the county, and the village of Petoskey had just entered upon its career. Upon the date named the books were opened at the U.S. Land office at Traverse City, and so great was the rush for land that over 800 claims were entered during the first three days. Under an act of Congress soldiers in the late war could homestead 160 acres of land while a citizen could homestead only eighty acres, consequently a greater portion of the land was taken by soldiers who settled upon homesteads of 160 acres."

Page 220 of the above linked book states:

"John E. Darrah, Melrose Township Charlevoix County, was born in Saratoga County, N.Y., Jan. 1 1847: came to Kalamazoo County, Mich., with his parents in 1850 and remained there till 1862; he then went to Pennsylvania and was engaged in lumbering for two years. He enlisted in 1864 in the Fifty-seventh Pennsylvania Infantry, and served in the Army of the Potomac till the close of the war. Was in several battles near Petersburg, Va., and was at Farmville, Va., when General Lee's army surrendered to General Grant. He came to Clarion Station March 7, 1877, when the surrounding country was a dense wilderness, and had only one dollar and fifty cents in money, a barrel of flour and a cow to make a start with in a new country, having just been burned out in Kent County, Mich., and lost all he had..."


Page 220 of the above linked book states:

"Samuel B. Thatcher, Springvale Township, Charlevoix County, was born in Greene County, Ohio, in 1849; remained at home til the age of fourteen years, when he enlisted in the Twenty-sixth Ohio Infantry, and served in the Army of the Cumberland till the close of the war. When discharged he returned to Ohio and was engaged in selling nursery stock and farming till April, 1876, when he came to Springvale Township and took up a homestead of 160 acres.... While the township of Springvale was organized there were only fourteen voters in town. For three years after Mr. Thatcher settled in the township he carried most of his provisions on his back from Petoskey, a distance of fourteen miles. Mr. Thatcher's mother moved from Ohio with him and is living near him. Since coming to Springvale, eight years since, she has not made a visit to Petoskey."

Silas S. Walton...
Although Silas was born in Broome County New York, and enlisted on 25 January 1864 in Eagle MI, he spent a great deal of his life in Northern MI. His son Elbert Ernest "Bert" Walton lived on top of Charlevoix County Chandler Hill. Silas served as a Private in Battery E of the 1st Michigan Light Artillery. On 11 August 1864 he was transferred to Battery M of the same regiment. In the many engagements this regiment was a part of, one of the most notable was the battle of Nashville, Tennessee, in December of 1864. Silas was discharged on 1 August 1865, in Jackson, Michigan.

Franklin LeRoy Smith...
Frank served in Co. D, Twelth Wisconsin Veteran Volunteer Regiment during the Civil War, enlisting 24 Sep. 1861, re-enlisted 5 Jan. 1864, honorably discharged 8Aug. 1865. Frank mustered into the East Jordan Chapter, of "Stevens Post No.66, Department of Michigan of the G.A.R." on 22 December 1883. Frank homesteaded in Wilson Township, MI and continued as a farmer until ill health forced his retirement and he moved to East Jordan. He was a Methodist. Frank was elected Constable of Wilson Township in April 1888.


Click for: Private Charles A. Bloss
First Michigan Regiment Company C

E & M (Engineers & Mechanics)
According to 1880 Springvale Township Charlevoix County Census and a Charlevoix County land register, Charles Bloss farmed 80 acres in Springvale Township. His wife Matilda (Loomis) was listed as a housewife, 34 years old. Matilda was also from New York and her parents were Alex & Dortha Walcott Loomis.

Listed were five children for Charles & Matilda Bloss:
Ida - 
daughter b. 1867 married 5 December 1880 to Oliver S. Horton (b. 1853) in Petoskey.
Ada - 
daughter b. 1869 in Kent county Michigan married Aug. 4, 1888 to Frank C. Smith b. 1948 in Boyne City, MI
Ola - 
son b. about 1871  ( never mentioned again)
Eva - 
daughter b. 1876
Gracie -
 daughter b. 1879

Edward Walter Clifford Newman of Charlevoix enlisted during the Civil War. The Charlevoix Historical Society stated about Edward Newman: "As a respected American Indian agent stationed at Fort Buford in the Dakota Territories, he was the officer appointed to go out to meet Sitting Bull when the chief had to surrender his starving people in July 1881, after they had retreated to Canada following the Battle of Little Big Horn five years prior". ~ "Looking Back" segment in the 29 August 2014 Charlevoix Courier

Civil War Soldiers' Names Below:
​From the 1901 Charlevoix County Plat Map Patron's Directory
​From the 1901 Charlevoix County Plat Map Patron's Directory page 43:
George Kyes of Boyne Valley Township:

"General Farming. Mr. Kyes was born in Shenandoah Valley, Va., April 19, 1819. Moved to Bradford County, Pa., when seven years old, where he lived five years. Came to Michigan and settled in Jackson County, and from there to Calhoun County where he lived twenty-one years, coming from there to Charlevoix County. Mr. Kyes went to California in 1850, where he remained four years. Served in Company I, 1st Michigan Volunteers, and served four years in the Mexican War of 1846. He was married to Armena Charter Septmember 10, 1848. They have one child."
​From the 1901 Charlevoix County Plat Map Patron's Directory page 42:
J.B. Taylor of Bay Township: 


"Retired. Mr. Taylor was born in Canada. January 1, 1825. Went to Indiana in 1835. On April 28, 1847, he enlisted in Company K, 16th Regulars, and served 22 months in the war with Mexico. Was discharged September 8, 1848, returning to Michigan where he settled in Livingston County. December 28, 1863, he enlisted in Company H, 9th Michigan Infantry, and served until the close of the war. Was discharged September 15, 1865. He moved to Ingham County, where he lived eleven years. Came to Charlevoix County in 1883. He was married September 20, 1849 to Lyda J. Henry, of Washtenaw County, Mich. They have seven children. Mrs. Taylor was born in Seneca County, N.Y., January 22 1832."
From the 1901 Charlevoix County Plat Map Patron's Directory page 44:
A.R. Towsley of Chandler Township: 

"Farming and Blacksmithing. Mr. Towsley was born in St. Lawrence County, N.Y., August 26, 1847. Enlisted March 4, 1865, in Company G, 103d N.Y. Volunteers. Served until January 18, 1966. Married November 30, 1870, to Jane M. Fetterly, of Macomb, N.Y. Have had six children, five now living.
From the 1901 Charlevoix County Plat Map Patron's Directory page 45:
George S. Crakes of Hudson Township: 

"General Farming, Supervisor of Hudson Township. Mr. Crakes was born in Yates County, N.Y., September 1, 1846. Came to Michigan nine years later. Settled in Kent County. Came to Hudson Township in 1887. He was married January 26, 1884, to Josephine Davis, of Kent County. They have three children. Mr. Crakes enlisted in Company I, 21st Regiment, Michigan Volumteers, January 13, 1864. Served until June 7, 1865. He received a bad wound in the neck in the battle of Bentonville, N.C. March 19, 1865.
From the 1901 Charlevoix County Plat Map Patron's Directory page 45:
Mrs. Sarah E. Hass of Melrose Township: 

"General Farming, Dairying and Gardening. Mrs. Hass was married to John B. Hass in Elkhart County, Ind., Decembr 9, 1869, where she lived eleven years, coming to Clarion, Mich., in 1880, where Mr. Hass engaged in the lumber business for about three years, when they located on the farm. Mr. Hass died some years ago, leaving a wife and five children. Mr. Hass served in Company B, 12th Michigan Volunteer Infantry from 1863 to 1866."
From the 1901 Charlevoix County Plat Map Patron's Directory page 45:
S.D. Stone of Melrose Township: 

"General Farming. Mr. Stone was born in Loraine County, Ohio, February 12, 1833; came to Michigan in 1849, was married December 8, 1845, to Miss Elmyra Platt, served in Company A, 3rd Michigan Calvalry, discharged October 10, 1861. They have four children."
From local research:
Private Charles A. Bloss
First Michigan Regiment Company C

E & M (Engineers & Mechanics)

According to 1880 Springvale Township Charlevoix County Census and a Charlevoix County land register, Charles Bloss farmed 80 acres in Springvale Township. His wife Matilda (Loomis) was listed as a housewife, 34 years old. Matilda was also from New York and her parents were Alex & Dortha Walcott Loomis. 

Listed were five children for Charles & Matilda Bloss:
Ida - 
daughter b. 1867 married 5 December 1880 to Oliver S. Horton (b. 1853) in Petoskey.
Ada - 
daughter b. 1869 in Kent county Michigan married Aug. 4, 1888 to Frank C. Smith b. 1948 in Boyne City, MI
Ola - 
son b. about 1871  ( never mentioned again)
Eva - 
daughter b. 1876
Gracie -
 daughter b. 1879

War Talk
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6 July 1887 ~ The Petoskey Record
Article Below: Both Petoskey and Bay View claim an interest in
​Department Commander R.R. Pealer and his military connections.
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28 June 1899 ~ The Petoskey Record above AND more information about Judge Pealer included below...
From the History of Michigan published in 1915 by The Lewis Publishing Company:
"Judge Pealer...

From 1868 Judge Pealer took an active interest in the Grand Army of the Republic, and served as Post Commander, as Commander of the Department of Michigan, and several times as Judge Advocate of the Department, and also as Judge Advocate General of the Grand Army of the United States. He took the lead in the movement to erect a soldiers' and sailors' monument at Three Rivers and was chairman of the Monument Association, and presided during the dedication ceremonies. He has attended most of the state and national encampments, and has long been an active member of the military order of the Loyal Legion and has been its State Commander.

From his mother he received special encouragement toward a higher education, and as a boy he definitely determined upon the law as a vocation and was planning to enter the Albany Law School in New York, when the Civil war came on. He was attending school at the time of the second battle of Bull Run, and then went to Washington and volunteered to assist in the care of the wounded. On September 9, 1862, he enlisted for three years as a private in Company E of the Sixteenth Pennsylvania Volunteer Cavalry and served until honorably discharged August 11, 1865. For "meritorious conduct" he was promoted to sergeant major of the regiment, and later was commissioned second and then first lieutenant of Company E, acted as adjutant of the regiment, served on the staff of the regimental and brigade commanders, and at times commanded a company and sometimes a squadron, and during the battle of Reams Station was temporarily in command of the Second Pennsylvania Cavalry. Judge Pealer participated in thirty-five battles and engagements, including the Chancellorsville and Gettysburg campaigns, and the engagements at Shepardstown, Culpeper, Mine Run, Sulphur Springs, the Wilderness campaign. Cold Harbor, North Anna, Petersburg, Weldon Railroad, Plank Road and Hatcher's Run. While leading Companies E and I in the Rattle of Hatcher's Run he was wounded, and was carried from the field on a stretcher, and then removed a distance of six hundred miles to his home. The ball was extracted in Baltimore, and he was cared for by his mother at his home until able to return on crutches to his regiment. While recovering from his wound he studied civil engineering, and after the war defrayed some of the expenses of his legal education by work as a surveyor.

In business affairs at Three Rivers he [Judge Pealer] served for six years as president of the First National Bank, and during that time the First National took over the business of the Three Rivers National, and he was also receiver for the First National bank of White Pigeon. Owning a summer home at Bay View, near Petoskey, Judge Pealer became a well known figure among the summer citizens of that noted resort, became a trustee and took an active part in its affairs."

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5 June 1901 ~ The Petoskey Record

Dean Wheaton in his book The Wheatons of Northern Michigan, explained that the Civil War affected everyday Life in Michigan as well as the lives of the military men and women... forever: "Life in Michigan during the war went on but saw many changes. A shortage of labor was responsible for development of many farm machines. Bumper crops and high prices caused farm prosperity to rise to unknown heights. Wheat reached $1.84 per bushel in 1864. Many women were busy preparing bandages and clothing or joined the labor force especially on farms. Industrial production, prices, and profits rose rapidly but wages more slowly, an impetus to unionization later. Lumbering was one industry that was hurt by the war and it did not recover until the war's end." (Transcribed here by permission of Mrs. Dean Wheaton)

Early 1900s Photo/Text Below: The photo includes Harbor Springs' 
​The Republican newspaper editor Lorenzo A. Clark, a Civil War veteran.
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11>17 August 1965 ~ Harbor Light

Civil War Battlefields Little Changed ~ Looking Back
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26 May 1905 ~ Otsego County Herald (Gaylord MI newspaper)

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30 December 1909 ~ The Pellston Journal

Two Articles Below: A.F. Ruch Alive and Well in St. Cloud FL
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9 March 1910 ~ The Petoskey Record
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7 April 1910 ~ The National Tribune Washington DC

Article Below: Daniel Tripp, venerable old 
Indian wartime scout and soldier...
Additional information farther below on this same web page with Tripp's obituary...
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27 April 1910 ~ The Petoskey Record

Article Below: In 1910 Peter Jackson reunited with his son whom he had lost contact
​during the days of the Civil War, when this son was 4 years of age.
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28 May 1910 ~ Petoskey Evening News

Article Below: Petoskey's Mayor Reycraft made a "Proclamation on Memorial Day, 1910" to Honor The Dead Civil War Soldiers.
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28 May 1910 ~ Petoskey Evening News

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7 September 1910 ~ The Petoskey Record
Article Above: The Military Telegraph Service is explained on the Signal Corps Association Webpage.

Article Below: Two old comrades who had been in Libby prison together,
​met up in 1910 in Petoskey, for the first time since 1863.
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7 September 1910 ~ Petoskey Evening News

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12 October 1910 ~ The Petoskey Record

Article Below: James Rose, an old Civil War Vet Needed Treatment
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18 January 1911 ~ The Petoskey Record

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18 January 1911 ~ The Petoskey Record

Article Below: Civil War Veteran
A.R. Malcolm Rice born on Leap Year,
only celebrating 15th birthday...
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21 February 1912 ~ Petoskey Evening News

~ 1913 ~
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26 June 1913 ~ The Pellston Journal
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26 June 1913 ~ Petoskey Evening News
              Photo Below: The Grand Army of the Republic Civil War Veterans from Emmet County, pose with the cannon that was donated July 4, 1905, by the Women's Relief Corps. The cannon still stands in Pennsylvania Park, Petoskey, Michigan.
      A copy of the same below 1913 photo of the cannon in the Petoskey, Michigan, Pennsylvania Park was located in the Boyne City MI Museum. On the back of the Boyne City photo was written: "Daniel Tainter (see biography farther below) standing second from right with feet crossed."
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Little Traverse Historical Society Photo Collection (1913)

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15 December 1916 ~ Petoskey Evening News
Article Below:
​John Brock of Bliss, one more old veteran of the Civil War passed away, and was interred in Bliss Cemetery.
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22 June 1916 ~ Petoskey Evening News

~ 1921 ~
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A 1921 Photo from the Greenwood Photo Archive Collection used in the Northern Michigan Review (24 May 1951) ~ Same photo as in the photo/text below identifying the soldiers...
Photo Below with identifications same as photo above:
​ "57 Years After the Civil War was Over' Remembering... with soldiers' identifications
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24 May 1951 ~ Northern Michigan Review

~ 1933 ~ 
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23 December 1933 ~ Petoskey Evening News

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10 July 1952 ~ Northern Michigan Review

Article Below:
The Civil War "was fought on good grounds, not necessarily to end slavery,
but for economic reason, which included slavery in the South."
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9 April 1985 ~ Petoskey News Review


Click for:
UNITED STATES SOLDIERS OF THE CIVIL WAR 1894
Soldiers, Sailors and Marines
Volume III


COMPILED AND PUBLISHED BY 
WASHINGTON GARDNER, SECRETARY OF STATE 
In accordance with an Act of the Legislature, approved May 31, 1893
EMMET COUNTY. 

From the Census of the State of Michigan, 1894: (Plus later additions)

Bear Creek Township.
 — Amos Ward Abbey, John W. Howard, August Hendrich, George Payne, Orrin Babcock, Richard Demond, John Engle, Wm. S. Batt, Eber A. Stanley, Donat Fettig, Elijah Angus, John McLean, Samuel Burbank, John H. Thompson, Jacob Konle, George S. Richmond, Jacob Leveck, Thomas B. Hamilton, Daniel A. Upson, Silas Jones, Wm. Drumm, J. W. Cryderman, Eugene R. Sly, Amos W. Deitz, Andrew Homes, Frank X. Schluttenhoffer, Robert Anton, Wm. E.
Cochran, Elijah Tuttle, Michael Hannen, Elmer Gage, Wm. J. Chase, [A. C. Barnard, Angus Krause, Robt. P. Reed, Christopher Pennington, Christopher Stowe, Darius E. Shearer, Albert Pasharba].

Village of Petoskey. — Samuel Knecht, -Lewis S. Davis, John W. Cook, Adin E. Easton, John Deverney, David I. Webb, Lemuel S. Beman, Alson Beaman, George Van Dusen, Timothy W. McDowell, John M. Martin, James Taylor, Enoch P. Teachout, Milo Crawford, Samuel J. Davis, Melvin Burch, J. Seeley, Robert P. Reed, Philip D. Banghart, George S. Williams, Cass Van Lueven, Frank H. Hull, James Eoch, Calvin Washburn, James A. Washburn, Albert F. Euch, Dougall McKenzie, Eli Grimes, Geo. E. Gridley, Emery R. Struble, Andrew Brenner, Lewis A. Labadie, Wm. M. Lockwood, L. L. L. Eockey, Nathan
Small, John E. Rankin, Flavel J. Smith, Royal Cole, Joseph A. C. Rowan, James Buckley, Davis E. Shearer, Charles N. Shaw, Charles A. Neff, Robert T. Phillips, Henry T. Calkins, Levi B. Rogers, David John Cushman, John H. Gillman, John Keep, Allen C. Litchfield, Peter E. Blow, James H. Wells, Mathew M. Hughes, Henry Hallock, James M. Bradley, Ora E. Clark, Edwin Annabel, Lyman Townsend, John Fell, George H. Smith, George W. Covell, D. R. Tripp, Horace Pardee, Wm. J. Orser, George Henry Cushman, Edward J. Crandall, Judson R. Smith, Jerome J. Robbins, Edwin A. Dunton, Alex. Worden, Austin F. Pollins, Christian F. Myers, Richard Jones, Martin Kirwin, George Markle, George Olin, Benj. W. Fosflick, George S. Barnes, Wm. H. Stone, Theodore Privatt, Henry A. Rathborn, Frank D. Wilmarth, Amara J. Bachelder, Peter Jackson, George W. Hancock, Horace M. Wilcox, Joseph 0. Bontecou, Charles P. Wilson, Alvin Wilcox, James Wright, Richard H. Eussell, John R. Davis, Philip E. Peisch, Jacob Van Zollenberg, Henry C. Plum, Charles B. Heneka, Allen J. Ramsby, George W. Barnes, Warren Finn, Ezra A. Faunce, Thomas Keyes, Wilbur F. Lawton, Melvin Houghtalin, Wm. H. Ohle, Lewis B. Perrine, Albert B. Richmond, Christopher F. Hankey, David Smith, [Wm. Converse, Jos. Cook, Sylvester A. Fell, George Washington Bump, Henry Gates, David T. Webb, John W. Cook, Lavant Van Alstine, Isaac M. Lusk, John R. Pieree, J. W. Hunt, Malcom Rice, Thomas Lundridge, Jno. Pleiphart, F. E. Herrymun, George W. Segar, Jerry Wertz, Jno. Atkins, Orleans H. Smith, Joseph Jordan, W. E. Cochran, Michael Hannah, Samuel E. Woodsworth, Frank Garsenbski, Orrin Babcock] . (James P. Averill, Joseph Ashby, Craig Rowan)

Bliss Township. — James Kilpatrick, Jerome Keiser, Franklin Keiser, Martin Overholt, Jacob Goble, Charles P. Carpenter, Frederick Bayha, Edwin D. Mathews.

Carp Lake Township. — Ernest Walther, Charles Harvey, Frederick O. Roth, William O'Niel, Samuel E. Grant, Hugh Kilpatrick, Thomas M. Joslin, Amandis Derhamer, [Oliver Cleope].

Center Township. — Herman E. Wood, Frederick Cook, Robert B. Garner, John Canam, Hiram Buck, Enos M. Warble, Charles Cook, Daniel Marcey, Sr., William H. Turner, Alfronso Brooks, Nelson Bennett.

Cross Village Township. — Joseph Ashkonac, Francis Tabash, Passon Wolfe, William Kimball, Daniel W. Root, Edwin B. Brown, Zina D. Ransom.

Egleston Township. — Allen C. Wright. Benj. Hankins, Isaac Palmer, George H. EarL

Friendship Township. — John O. Shomin, John Bachee, Alden J. Wheeler, Isaiah Smith, Romanus Kaylor, Samuel Shaw, Francis M. Goltry, Michael E. Mcintosh, Elburtus Campfleld, Horace Eastman, Samuel E. Scalf, Jesse F. Carmine, Henry Radle, Peter Pace, [Francis Shaw].

Littlefleld Township. — Foster B. Grossman, George W. Dart, Gilbert L. Hicks, Sr., Daniel Crump, Orson K. Kingman, Frederick W. Worden, Oliver 0. Cope, Norman Buggies, James Houts, William H. Pope, Melvin P. Sabins, Lemuel H. Williams, Philip Patterson, Isaac H. Banghart, August G. Bonz, Frank Melville Joslin, Eliphalet Pemberton, Lawrence Cornell, Nelson Cook, William C. Edgar, Mitchell M. Sanford, Charles K. Mitchell, Abel Slyvester Ingraham, Joel E. Gray, Fred A. Sheldon, John S. Wormell, James E. Hyatt, David H. Williams, Joseph M. Cramer, Hiram Elsworth, Orlando Curtis, Horton Elsworth,
William Blanchard, Chauncey A. Hasset, Jeremiah J. Shatto, Ezra Schlappi, [Thos. M. McCabe, Charles W. Shaw].

Little Traverse Township. — Joseph Noginoshe, C. Alphonzo Ingalls, Orrin A. Blackman, Isaac Colburn, Edward S. Hall, Daniel G. Smith, John M. Quick, Nathan Lamson, William W. Munn, Charles Cook, Hiram Wood, Adam Innis, Albert L. Hathaway, Alonzo Lawrason, Jacob Jacobs, Benj. F. Cooper, James Rose, Levi Wiser, Jonas Clackner, Richard F. Austin, Henry C. Hitchings, John D. Clickner, John J. Cook, M. H. Blackmer, E. D. Babcock, Edmund W. Gleason, [Reuben A. Gleason, Horace Eastman, Horace Eulison, Harmon E. Rulison, Martin E. Semour].

Village of Harbor Springs. — Charles A. Tanner, Stephen Manchester, Frank A. Judd, Irving H. Lane, Gideon A. Moss, John H. Coleman, Fred F. Main, Augustus Courtright, Comodore P. Clark, Martin V. Barnes, Sylvester Losinger, Wm. Thurston, James M. Rouse, Charles Ball, Joseph L. Planck, Asbury T. Long, John F. Simson, Charles H. Eaton, Stephen M. Rogers, Charles H. Soper, Nicholas Thery, Wm. H. Lee, Ephraim Shay, Moses Bennett, Brazali B. Bradley, Israel Canby,
George W. Dickinson, Daniel C. Harrison, Conrad Zoll, Daniel Foreman, James M. Davis, George A. Ingalls, Charles C. Newkirk, George O. Richardson, Abram R. Stutsman, Wm. Ransom, Henry Dulver, Samuel L. Barber, Charles E. Judd, Lorenzo A. Clark, John S. Brubecker, Charles S. Barton, [Joseph Juillert, Elburtus Campfleld, Horace Eastman, Joseph N. Bradley] .

Maple River Township. — John Nicholas, Cyrus Hurd, John S. Case, John C. Mummert, Isaac M. Lusk, Heman W. Morford, John P. Dimling, George Duncan, Benj. Patterson, Jesse Sanford, Samuel Cupp, Henry Pier, Henry C. Goodrich, Leonard L. Stanton, George S. Main, Jacob Lehmer, [George Chambers].

Pleasant View Township. — George Congdon, George W. Lucas, Sr., Reuben A. Gleason, D. S. Kijiesley, Joshua Winney, John Warren, Robert White, George Harter, James M. Hunt.

Readmond Township. — H. A. Brown, Lyman Miller, John P. Sigsby, James B. Ellsworth, Thales Chapin, [Ward J. DuBois] . (Ralph Ely)

CHARLEYOIX COUNTY. 

Bay Township. — Jacob Kahler, Benj. West, Henry U. Dyer, Warren Willis, Alonzo J. Stroud, Albert Olds, Wm. Hervin, Thomas Stroud, Edward Starmer, Wm. Weller, John B. Taylor, [Chas. M. Smith, Wm. H. Smith, James Fearnside] .

Bear Lake Township. — Chas Hankins, Jr., August Krouse, David James, Sylvester Taylor, John D. Covel, Henry Wooden, Smith Forsythe, Daniel Herrington, Almon Bernard, Philip E. Peisch, Chas. Hankins,

Boyne Valley Township. — Walter S. Searles, Benj. F. Rice, Marshall Magee, George C. Leddick, Enoch K. Robinson, Josiah F. May, John F. Baker, Robert Findley, Jacob Deitz, Jerome J. Robbins, Michael Heagney, Benj. W. Ellison, Peter Osborne. [Henry Moore].

Village of Boyne Falls. — Seymour Howe, B. F. Smith, Andrew A. Nowland, Chas.H. Johnson, John McKernan, Lewis Meaker, Edward Barcome, David Baker, Frank P. Myers, George W. Van Buren, Wm. P. Davoll, George R. Leclear, Hiram Wright, Wm. Mears, Simon Barringer, [Melvin G. Wakeman].

Chandler Township. — Andrew Boothe, Wm. A. Wetherbee, John W. Howard, Albert R. Howard, Andrew Martin, Thomas Stradling, James W. Hall, Albert Tousley.

Charlevoix Township. — Sam'l Solter, [Jas. Arwonogezice, David M. Colby,Ramsom Cram, Henry Cunningham, Morris Hobbs, Andrew Holmes, Thomas Kelley, Henry Moore, Austin Newman, Chas. L. Peaslee].

Village of Charlevoix. — Morris J. Stockman, Pelig S.Brown, Edward H. Green, John Z. Linton, Oliver T. Booth, Egbert Carpenter, John Litzan, Wm. H. McCartney, Abel H. Lobdell. Albert C. Jarvis. James A. Hawkins. Chester Denton, Chas. Newman, Alton B. Brink, Robt. Miller, Albert Brown, Thomas K. Palmer, Marshall Frazine, LeGrand Lamphere Horace Van Norman, J. Carter, Louis Guard, Henry Newman, Thomas Kelley, Jacob Steed, Marshall J. Bartlett,, David C. Nettleton, Nelson Ainslie, Robert Donnelly, Henry Cunningham, David M. Colby, Morris Hobbs, James Wasegesik, [George W. Bailey, Harrison Berdan, Thomas Boake, William H. Collins, Ronald M. Corey, John J. Fagan, William S. Johnson, John Laut, Stephen K. Moore, Marcus S. Moulton, Melvin Montey, Wm. C. Newman, Hiram C. Bifenburg, Sam'l M. See, Adolphus Siminow, James Melvin Thompson, Jno. H. Williams].

Evangeline Township.— D. E. E. Hall, Wm. A. North, Henry G. Curkendall. L. G. Chase, Ira Safford, Wm. B. Wilder, John V. Pickering, George C. Boice, Wm. C. Fordham, Wm. H. Rogers, Daniel A. Tainter, Horace D. North, Wm. Childs, Abraham Shafer, [Wm. J. Hayward, M. Woodward, Henry Howard, Albert Howard] .

Village of Boyne City. — Frank Thompson, James T. Brown, Francis M. Gates, James Stackus, Ashbel Herron, James L. Handy, Chas. Lusk, Gilbert D. Ward, David S. Kuhns, H. C. Sargant, Chas. P. Call, Arthur E. Martin, Alex. Carmichael, Hiram A. Thompson, Gilbert W. White, Daniel Stevenson, Alfred Delacey, [Wayne E. Morris].

Eveline Township. -Richard Williams, Thomas Bird, Andrew Hoskins, George Luther, Henry Crowl, John Loose, Fowler Steele, David Snyder, Chas. Heller, John Shyrock, Albert Steele, David Willis, James King, James McKee, Elmore Ferris, Edmond Jackson, L. Otasquabona, Henry Nowland.

Hayes Township. — Henry A. Ward, George O. Scott, D. J. Maynard, Henry Ostrum, Leroy Hamlin, Frank White, John Jackio, Ransom Cram, Isaiah W. Austin, John Cook, Enoch Medsker, Wm. C. Grandy, Wm. Coinpton, [John Fineout, Horace S. Newson, Frederick Smith, Sylvester Minier, George Everts].

Hudson Township. — George S. Crakes, Elias W. Caldwell, Wesley R. McCave, Joseph Cook, Wm. H. Claspill, Timothy Castor, Anson L. Simons, James A. Waggoner, Aaron J. Waggoner.

Marion Township. — Leonard Whitmoyer, Wm. P. Edson, Wm. C. Lenox, Joseph G. Reed, Newton A. Balch, Lorenzo D. Porter, John H. O'Niel, Frank Thompson, [Daniel Himebooch, Myron Geer.]

Melrose Township. — Chas. A. Pease, Lewis Margerum, Malcolm Rice, Samuel P. Lord, John Vansaw, Qrson V. Holly, Frank W. Jones, Rufus H. Carley, Freling H. Potter, James R. Hass, William Jones, Wm. C. Niles, John F. Sheatsley, Benj. Bucher, Joseph B. Jordan, Stephen D. Stone, John E. Pritchard, Harmon A. Bixby, Thomas J. Baughman, John Jones, Charles Duell, John E. Darrah.

Norwood Township. — Wm. Richardson, John M. C. Runyan, Wm. Wallace, [Hiram Wilson, Nicholas A. Shores].

Resort Township.— William Brown, Silas Wright, Gilbert Torrey, Cornelius J. Wooden, Henry L. Dickerson.

South Arm Township. — George W. Hayner, Solomon Lee, Wm. Herrington, Chester Peck, Peter K. Winters, John St. John, Edward Wilks, Jacob D. Wagley, Stephen Bashaw, John H. Carney, Alexander Rheinhart, Marshall Swenor, Frederick Kowalski, D. M. Loud, Hiram B. Hipp, Michael Kowalski.

Village of East Jordan. — David L. Porter, Ira M. Miles, Henry Hagerman, Harrison Mitchell, Elias Hammond, John B. Webster, Jacob W. Eogers, George J. Bowen, L. M. Poote, Aldrich Townsend, Howard W. Weikel, Loren 0. Madison, Reason Renard, John Egan, Jacob Bissnett, Joseph H. Lanway, Alexander Bush, Solomon Gr. Isaman, John Cummings, L. D. Cole, Edward Smats, Christopher Cook, Joseph A. King, Joseph Bushey. James A. Shay, Samuel Bortel, George Pringle, [Franklin L. Smith, Frank Thompson, Alonson C. Baldwin].

Springvale Township. — Martin Wheeler, Clark M. Riddle, Warren W. Whitman, Cornelius J. Annable, Chauncey W. Barber, Wm. Bright, Alfred G. Blain, John B. Gokee, Samuel P. Woodworth.

Wilson Township. — Arthur L. Eaton, Nelson L. Barber, Ira Brooks, Albert Buckingham, Alexander Mayville, John H. Bills, Franklin L. Smith, George W. Bailey, Wm. G. Novinger, Samuel M. Richardson, Van R. Newville, John A. Newville, Spencer W. Haynes, Leonard W. Hull. Daniel Delong, X. J. De Bar, Sam'l McClyment, Harvey P. Wing, James Cole.


Michigan In The War published 1880 listed Petoskey historian Lorraine Washburne's grandfather Albert L. Hathaway as having been taken prisoner during the Civil War
​and was held in Andersonville Prison.
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MICHIGAN IN THE WAR 1864~1865 compiled by Jno. Robertson Adjutant General
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This book was engraved with the name of the owner Charles J. Pailthorp who was a Petoskey MI attorney. He gave this book to Petoskey attorney A.T, Washburne whose wife Lorraine Washburne has a personal connection to the information in the book.
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This book was published in Lansing, MIchigan, in 1880.
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This book had this extra page included stating that it was "Compliments of David H. Jerome, Governor of Michigan."
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On 24 October 2017 Lorraine Washburne pointed out the special mention of her ancestor.
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Lorraine Washburne's grandfather Albert L. Hathaway was taken prisoner as noted where Lorraine is pointing, and he was held in Andersonville Prision.
Obituary Below: Albert L. Hathaway, a pioneer of Emmet County and a member of the G.A.R., passed away near Harbor Springs. Mr. Hathaway was the Civil War soldier noted in Lorraine Washburne's book above.
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19 June 1907 ~ The Petoskey Record

War Time Pictures of Local Men 
Isaac Degraff Toll, Dr. Alexander Worden, Col. George W. Dickinson,
George W. Bump, Charles H. Henika, and Wilbur F. Lawton
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29 May 1907 ~ The Petoskey Record (Continued Below)
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29 May 1907 ~ The Petoskey Record (Photos/Text Continued From Above)
Additional information about Charles Burgoyne Henika in the above photo: Henika was commissioned 2nd Lt, Co. L, on 3 November 1865. He had mustered 25 April 1865. Mustered out at Nashville, Tennessee, on 22 September 1865.

Maurice Eby has compiled a book titled The Ayr School and Community Emmet County Michigan.
On page 10 of Mr. Eby's book he has listed the Civil War veterans who came to the Ayr area to live (Emmet County MI), as the following: John Mummert, John Higinbotham, Isaac Lusk, Martin Seymour, Amos Deitz, Philo Ferguson, John Warren, Robert White, Robert Shidler, George Harter, Daniel Crump, William Green, Ben Hawkins, Gideon Noel, Herman Morford, John Dimling, Cyrus Hurd, Henry Pier, Sidney Main, and Sam Cupp.

Mr. Eby tells the history of some of the Civil War veterans listed above on the pages of his book.

The Fight between the FIRST Ironclads ever built... "The Battle of the Monitor and Merrimac"
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1908 Postcard in Possession of Webmaster

Emmet County, Alanson, Michigan
Civil War Veterans and Widows 
Memorial Day ~ About 1910
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Photo Displayed In Littlefield Township Community Center Alanson, Michigan

Story Below: Fred W. Main of Harbor Springs lost his leg in Fort Wagner Assault. At 87 years old he has many stories to tell about the war, and about Harbor Springs where Main had been a resident for 54 years.
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28 July 1932 ~ Emmet County Graphic

​Emmet County Soldiers of the Civil War Who Homesteaded near Petoskey
~ As Published in a 1938 booklet titled "Petoskey and Bay View in Ye Olden Days" ~
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1938

Article Below: The LAST Union veteran died in August, 1956, and the LAST Confederate in December, 1959. The government, however, still will be paying Civil War pensions to veterans' widows or other dependents... figuring it will be close to the year 2000 before the LAST Civil War pension payment would be complete.
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26 December 1962 ~ Petoskey News Review

The obituary below for Mrs. Cecil Bates told of her having moved to Harbor Springs 
with her Uncle Cecil Abbott who had been a Civil War veteran.
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Cecil Abbott... 12 December 1963 ~ Petoskey News Review

 ~ Civil War Era Bloodletting Scarificator Tool ~
(Bloodletting Tool)
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Scarification Tool at the Emmet County Antique Fair ~ 3 August 2019
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Scarification Tool at the Emmet County Antique Fair ~ 3 August 2019


G.A.R.
Grand Army of the Republic

The Grand Army of the Republic was a fraternal organization composed of veterans of the Union Army (United States Army), Union Navy (U.S. Navy), and the Marines who served in the American Civil War. It was founded in 1866 in Decatur, Illinois, and grew to include hundreds of "posts" (local community units) across the North and West. It was dissolved in 1956 at the death of its last member. ~ Wikipedia
Calling Together the Local Old Civil War Comrades
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7 July 1883 ~ Petoskey City Record
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11 December 1883 ~ The Northern Independent
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Perhaps a Charlevoix newspaper
Traverse Region Historical and Descriptive,WITH ILLUSTRATIONS OF SCENERY
AND

Portraits and Biographical Sketches OF SOME OF ITS Prominent Men and Pioneers.
Page 143 of the above linked 1884 book shows for Cross Village in Emmet County MI the following officers for the GAR Post No. 106 George Washington Post:
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1884
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22 February 1899 ~ The Petoskey Record
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23 October 1901 ~ The Petoskey Record
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8 October 1904 ~ Charlevoix County Herald (East Jordan newspaper)
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3 July 1907 ~ The Petoskey Record
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15 January 1910 ~ Charlevoix County Herald
Harry Fletcher, an old soldier of Bear Creek township, who has been a resident of this locality for many years, left Friday night for Grand Rapids to become an inmate of the soldier's home there. Mr. Fletcher served his country with the 24th Michigan Volunteers.  (29 January 1910 ~ Petoskey Evening News)
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Article Below of 14 December 1910 stated: "The Grand Army Post of Charlevoix has been disbanded and the soldiers' lots at the cemetery have been, by request, turned over to the Relief Corps who will take care of them."
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14 December 1910 ~ The Petoskey Record
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19 June 1913 ~ The Petoskey Record Page 2
Article Below:
​G.A.R. and W.R.C. met in East Jordan MI
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15 April 1916 ~ Charlevoix County Herald, an East Jordan newspaper
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14 September 1917 ~ Charlevoix County Herald
The soldiers of the Civil War are often thought to have been older men, but the article right tells that the "BOYS in the Civil War preserved the Union. Here are their ages."
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10 December 1917 ~ The Petoskey Evening News

Allen J. Ramsby
1841 ~ 1937

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1 April 1937 ~ Emmet County Graphic
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1 April 1937 ~ Emmet County Graphic

Ira Stewart
Article Below Center/Right: Ira Stewart Will Again Head G.A.R.
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2 April 1936 ~ Emmet County Graphic
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18 June 1936 ~ Northern Michigan Review article continued column at right...
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18 June 1936 ~ Northern Michigan Review article continued from left column...
Lombard Post commander Ira Stewart who stepped down stood beside
Royal B. Teachout who was the only other surviving member of the Lombard Post.
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3 February 1937 ~ Petoskey Evening News
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1 April 1937 ~ Emmet County Graphic
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1 April 1937 ~ Northern Michigan Review
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1 June 1937 ~ Petoskey Evening News
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11 June 1937 ~ Petoskey Evening News
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29 May 1939 ~ Petoskey Evening News
Article Below Left: Ira Stewart told "of personal contacts with Abraham Lincoln, saying he had heard Lincoln speak several times." Articles Below Center and Right: Ira Stewart, last surviving member of the G.A.R. in this territory pulled the flag to the top of he pole for dedication of the new highway running in front of the NEW Little Traverse Hospital. AND The gift of Emmet County Post 2051, Veterans of Foreign Wars, and McCabe Camp No. 42, United Spanish War Veterans, gifted to Lockwood Hospital a 45 foot flagpole and large flag.
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15 February 1939 ~ Petoskey Evening News
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9 November 1939 ~ Emmet County Graphic
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9 November 1939 ~ Emmet County Graphic
Ira Stewart
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31 May 1940 ~ Petoskey Evening News continues next column...
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Greenwood Photo Archive Collection from Petoskey newspapers ( 8 July 1940 )
Ira Stewart stated: "I believe that the United States should be open to those of other countries seeking a haven in a free county, but after they are here, if they can't subscribe to our way of living and our form of government they should go back from whence they came."
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31 May 1940 ~ Petoskey Evening News continued from column at left...
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20 March 1940 ~ Petoskey Evening News
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23 May 1940 ~ Petoskey Evening News
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29 May 1968 ~ Petoskey News Review
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Greenwood Photo Archive Collection from Petoskey newspapers (1940)
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5 July 1940 ~ Petoskey Evening News
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6 July 1940 ~ Petoskey Evening News
Four Photos Below: Funeral Procession near the Catholic Church where the funeral was held before interment at the Greenwood Cemetery for Civil War Veteran Ira Stewart...
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Greenwood Photo Archive Collection from Petoskey newspapers (8 July 1940)
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Greenwood Photo Archive Collection from Petoskey newspapers (8 July 1940)
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Greenwood Photo Archive Collection from Petoskey newspapers (8 July 1940)
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Greenwood Photo Archive Collection from Petoskey newspapers (8 July 1940)
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11 July 1940 ~ Northern Michigan Review
The 17 February 2023 Petoskey News Review announced that Ira Stewart, and fellow Civil War veteran will be honored on 30 September 2023 in their respective Petoskey cemeteries: Konle in St. Francis Cemetery at 11AM, and Stewart in Greenwood Cemetery at 1:30PM. Konle's Civil War headstone will be replaced during the ceremony.


The INDIAN COMPANY
"During the Civil War a full company of L'Arbre Croche Indians served with credit
under the command of General Grant."

(page 99 from Mrs. Ethel Rowan Fasquelle's book published in 1951 and titled
When Michigan Was Young)
"During the Civil War a full company of L’Arbre Croche Indians served with credit under the command of General Grant. Andrew Kag-a-be-tang, an Indian from the ancient village of L’Arbre Croche, was the FIRST soldier from Emmet County in World War I to give his life for this country, while quite recently the remains of several Emmet County Indians have been returned from the battlefields of Europe and the South Pacific islands."
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Little Traverse Bay Souvenir The Ottawan by F.C. Wright priced at 50¢ was published in 1895
(and may be accessed on the internet as a PDF).
       "One of the interesting features of the late Civil War was a company of Indian soldiers who fought under Grant from the battle of the Wilderness until the surrender of the Confederates at Appomattox Court House. 'Company K, First Michigan Sharpshooters,' was composed almost entirely of Indians from the Little Traverse Region. Of the 100 men who left to fight for their country, scarcely half that number returned. The company was organized at Little Traverse in 1863 by Lieut. G.A. Graveraet, a gallant young soldier, who fell mortally wounded in the battle before Petersburg, after digging a grave for his father who fell by his side.
       Letters received home from superior officers stated that the Indians were among the best soldiers in the service. They entered each battle with vim and vigor and fought as gallantly for that same country under the stars and stripes as their ancestors did when they defended it from the whites under the feathers of the wild American Eagle." Page 75

Kalbfleisch's Accounting of Indians of Company K
       "Among those from the Village [Cross Village] who fought in the Civil War were Louis and John B.S. Shomin, Frank Tabasash, and Joseph Ach-Au-Nach." Page 92 of Yesterday's People Revisited A Chronology of Northern Emmet County compiled by Raymond W. Kalbfleisch and printed in 1993. Kalbfleisch also wrote on Page 94 "Also among those from Emmet County who served in the Civil War were at least two Indian men from Bear River (Petoskey). Daniel Wells, or Mwa-ke-we-nah, who laid down his life for his country, and Joseph Na-bah-na-yah-sung, or as he named himself, Gibson, who died from starvation in the infamous Andersonville prison." On Page 122 Kalbfleisch further wrote: "Former members, and one widow of the famous all Indian Company K, First Michigan Sharpshooters living in the township in 1890 follows: Louis Shomin had been a private and lost his right eye. Payson Wolf, private, had incurred scurvy as the result of being a prisoner in Andersonville. Joseph Eshkonek, private, had an arm wound. Frank Tabasash had been a sergeant. Elizabeth Ketchabaptist was the widow of Amos; he had been a private and died in the Andersonville Prison."
       On page 132, Raymond Kalbfleisch wrote: "...The village [Cross Village] had a Grand Army of the Republic post. Established in 1883, it was known as the George Washington Post, G.A.R., No. 106. Frank Tabasash, an Indian veteran of the Civil War, held the position of officer of the guard in the post. In 1884, the post had 30 members."
Obituary Below: Jacob Kahler entered the war as a private
in Company K, Sixth Michigan Cavalry,
and served for three years and six months.
Much of that time
​he drove General Custer's headquarters wagon, accompanying the general on his fighting through the west
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13 September 1915 ~ Petoskey Evening News
Obituary Below: Mrs. Genereaux's husband was  in Company K, 1st Michigan Sharpshooters. He died as the result of wounds received during the Civil War.
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30 April 1918 ~ Petoskey Evening News
Obituary Below: Emmet Men's mother Mrs. Mary Jane Archer
had served as General George Custer's housekeeper in the early 1879's.
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25 August 1958 ~ Petoskey News Review
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29 July 2015 ~ Petoskey News Review


Charlevoix and Emmet County
​Civil War Soldiers' Deaths
(Plus a Few Other Notables Out of the Area)

Obituary Below: The obituary for John Smith's Pellston, Michigan, widow, told of John having been killed on his way to the Civil War. He was killed in 1861. One must wonder IF he has a proper memorial somewhere. Please contact the webmaster with any information about this particular John Smith.
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27 August 1913 ~ Petoskey Evening News
Sidney B. Brown had lived in the Petoskey, Michigan, area about ten years when he passed away,
​leaving behind many attached friends in the Grand Army of the Republic.
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8 May 1889 ~ The Petoskey Record
Obituary Below: Albert Bartlett Buried under Auspices of the GAR Lombard Post 170
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17 May 1893
Death Notice Below: Sylvester Taylor was listed with the Civil War Soldiers,
again on this same web page, as having served from Bear Creek Township in Charlevoix County.
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4 July 1895 ~ The Petoskey Record
Obituary Below: Enoch P. Teachout  who served with honor in the Civil War,
of Liberty Street in Petoskey, died 23 July 1900.
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25 July 1900 ~ Petoskey Record
Seymour S. Howe died November 1900
Picture18 August 2006 ~ Photo taken Boyne Valley Township Cemetery by Karla Howard Buckmaster
Russell Seymour Howe was born at Norwich, Windsor or Orange Co., Vermont. His mother and father were also born in Vermont, according to the 1900 census report. Seymour was married to Elizabeth "Eliza" Iles, under the name Russell Howe. Seymour entered the Civil War under the name Seymour S. Howe. He went by both names.  Seymour and Eliza lived in Boyne Valley Township Charlevoix County MI until he died 21 November 1900.


Seymour Howe was a Civil War Veteran. He enrolled Oct 10, 1861 at Potsdam, St. Lawrence County, New York. 92 Inf. Com. D, Private, New York. Discharged Apr 12, 1862, Washington D.C. Pension #286259  WC577-565. He received an honorable discharge for meritorious service.

Obituary Below: Benjamin W. Fosdick served in the 150th Pennsylvania, and for a time his company was detailed as guards in the White House grounds in Washington. Then he saw at close range the great men who in that troublous time sought the executive mansion. Benjamin passed away in 1902 on his home on Grove Street, Petoskey, Michigan.
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2 July 1902 ~ The Petoskey Record
Obituary Below: George B. Pine, a civil war veteran died at the home of his son-in-law Richard Morris
​in Bear Creek Township at 97 years old in 1903.
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30 January 1903 ~ Petoskey Evening News

​Jacob Konle
1903 Obituaries Below for Jacob Konle whose farm adjoins the corporation line on Sec. 5, Bear Creek died of cancer, leaving behind a widow Alma who passed April 1945. Mrs. Konle had moved from her farm into a residence on Waukazoo Avenue, Petoskey, Michigan in 1914, after Jacob died. When Mrs. Konle passed she was "the final surviving member of the Petoskey Women's Relief organization, auxiliary of Grand Army of the Republic to which her husband, the late Jacob Konle, a civil war veteran, belonged."
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11 March 1903 ~ The Petoskey Record
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13 March 1903 ~ The Independent Democrat
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3 April 1945 ~ Petoskey Evening News
The 17 February 2023 Petoskey News Review announced that Ira Stewart, and fellow Civil War veteran will be honored on 30 September 2023 in their respective Petoskey cemeteries: Konle in St. Francis Cemetery at 11AM, and Stewart in Greenwood Cemetery at 1:30PM. Konle's Civil War headstone will be replaced during the ceremony.

The obituary below for Edward A. Raymor tells he had been a member of Company C, Twenty-fourth Michigan, and served in the war from 9 August 1862 to 4 July 1865.
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2 January 1907 ~ The Petoskey Record
Obituary Below: L.E. Hyatt of Littlefield Township Emmet County MI was buried in Greenwood Cemetery Petoskey MI.
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23 January 1907

Obituary Below
: Almon C. Barnard, Civil War Veteran and member of the G.A.R. post, passed away.
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12 June 1907 ~ The Petoskey Record
Obituary Below: Daniel H. Herrington, a Civil War veteran,
​passed away at his "Summit Farm" near Clarion and Walloon Lake.
Click HERE to access additional Civil War information from Greenwood Cemetery about Daniel H. Herrington.
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9 January 1908 ~ Petoskey Evening News
Obituary Below First, Second, and Third Columns:
​James Lusk, served in a New York regiment. Later he  served as supervisor in Littlefield Township.
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5 May 1908 ~ Petoskey Evening News, continued next column...
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5 May 1908 ~ Petoskey Evening News continued from left column...
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6 May 1908 ~ The Petoskey Record
Article Below: Michigan's OLDEST and most remarkable man, Dan Whipple
​served in the Civil War, as well as having other interesting happenings in his long life.
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6 May 1908 ~ The Petoskey Record
Obituary Below: Calvin Washburn ( in the 11th New Hampshire Infantry for three years)
of 231 Clinton Street in Petoskey, died 22 May 1909. 
​Calvin's home still stands at the Clinton Street home with a plaque of Historic Places.
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Obituary Below: Levi E. Bacon, served during three years of the Civil War with the Illinois volunteers
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23 June 1909 ~ Petoskey Evening News
Obituary Below: LAST of Union Commanders of Civil War to die in 1909. He gave impressive service during the Civil War, and the Indian Wars.
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4 November 1909 ~ Pellston Journal
Article Below: Body of the FIRST victim of the Civil War, Charles A. Taylor, of Lowell, Mass. to be moved.
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9 December 1909 ~ Pellston Journal
Obituary Below:
​George Earl, a Carp Lake Pioneer, died in 1909.
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9 December 1909 ~ Pellston Journal
Article Below: In 1909 Hiram Warner of East Jordan died in Pellston at the home of his son Erastus Warner. Hiram Warner served in the Civil War.
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16 December 1909 ~ Pellston Journal
Obituary Below Three Columns: George H. Cushman Petoskey Pioneer Died in 1910.
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24 January 1910 ~ Petoskey Evening News #1
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24 January 1910 ~ Petoskey Evening News #2
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26 January 1910 ~ The Petoskey Record
Obituary and Article Below: Allen C. "Cross" Wright Died in 29 January 1910.
Mr. Wright built the first house in Pellston MI.
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29 January 1910 ~ Petoskey Evening News
"The funeral of Allen C. Wright will be at Pellston Tuesday afternoon at two o/clock at the church, and will be in charge of the Masonic lodge of Pellston, which will be assisted by the Elk's lodge of petoskey, of which Mr. Cross [sic] was a member..." (31 January 1910 ~ Petoskey Evening News)
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1 February 1910 ~ Petoskey Evening News
Obituary Below: John B. Looze of Eveline Township Charlevoix County died in 1910.
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5 February 1910 ~ Charlevoix County Herald (East Jordan MI newspaper)
Obituary Below: Horace Eastman 
of Harbor Springs died in 1910.
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7 March 1910 ~ Petoskey Evening News
Article Below: Captain F.J. Smith of Petoskey
was a veteran of the Civil War
AND the Spanish-American War.
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9 March 1910 ~ The Petoskey Record
Obituary Below: General J.D. Rather Died
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10 March 1910 ~ Petoskey Evening News
Obituary Below: J.N. Bradley
Second Michigan Infantry Died
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14 March 1910 ~ Petoskey Evening News
John Baptista Gokee (b. September 18, 1848, d. May 14, 1910)
Submitted to above site by Ellen Jane Keeler
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  "Cemetery Marker. He was a member of the GAR Lombard Post No. 170 in Petoskey, Emmet County, Michigan. John served in the Civil War for 5 months {March 21, 1865 to August 28, 1865} in company 1, 192 New York Infantry as a Private. He applied for pension because of deafness. He died in a veterans hospital in Sawtelle, California. In the 1880 Michigan Census his last name is listed as Gothier. He also said that his parents were born in France.
    John Baptista Gokee was born on September 18, 1848 in Clinton County, New York to John C. Gokee and Sophia Miller. They moved to Michigan while John was little more than a boy and settled near Saginaw, Saginaw County, Michigan. He enlisted during the latter part of the Civil War, in either the 29th Michigan Volunteer Infantry or in Company 1, 192 New York Infantry and served until the end of the war. After the war he went to northern Michigan and settled in Springvale Township on a part of section 31, seven miles southeast of Petoskey and 5 miles northeast of Clarion. He married Phebe Perry on July 21, 1867 in Saginaw, Saginaw County, Michigan. Phebe was born about 1842 in Canada. They had 3 children, Milena born march 6, 1868 in Charlevoix County, Michigan; Artilda born may 22, 1869; and John Abraham born February 3, 1871 in Emmet County, Michigan. Phebe died February 8, 1873 in Carrolton, Saginaw County, Michigan.
    He married Lenna L. Cummings on March 18, 1874. They lived between Clarion and Petoskey, in Bear Creek Township, Michigan. They had nine children, Rosie L. born December 28, 1874; Samuel A. born May 30, 1876; Vina born April 4, 1878; Charles Freeman born January 3, 1880; Collie Cephart born June 25, 1882; Arthur born November 10, 1884; Roy born December 31, 1894; Claude born January 26, 1889; and Mable Bell born February 1, 1892.
    On Tuesday May 1, 1894 a heavy thunder storm moved through the area. They were just sitting down to dinner, Lenna was standing at the wood stove pouring tea when a bolt of lightening struck her. Lenna was killed instantly and two of the children were stunned and thrown to the floor. The children recovered. The floors were ripped up and the house was set on fire in a number of places. The house was saved but they lost many of their household goods and their clothing was destroyed. Profound sympathy among friends and neighbors brought them to do everything possible for John and his motherless children. The G.A.R. [Grand Army of the Republic] Lombard Post No. 170 collected resolutions of sympathy and condolences. Lenna's funeral was handled by the IOOF [International Order of Odd Fellow] and was held at the family residence. John and Lenna were in the process of building the farm house and were staying with neighbors when this happened.
    He then married Martha Dean on December 31, 1897 in Emmet County, Michigan. Martha was born about 1841. John was a member of the G.A.R. Lombard Post No. 170 in Petoskey, Emmet County, Michigan. John applied for pension from his service in the Civil War because of deafness. In September in 1910 John went to California to visit his sons Claude and Freeman. When he was taken ill with Typhoid Fever and died on May 14, 1910 from an abscess in his head. He was at the National Soldiers Hospital in Sawtelle, California. His body was returned to Michigan by his sons Claude and Freeman. He was buried in Maple Hill Cemetery in Clarion next to Lenna. The services were conducted by Rev. George Weaver and assisted by Rev.C. E. Pickett in the Christian church, and handled by the I.O.O.F. Music was provided by the Odd Fellows and six of their members were Paul bearers. A large number of friends followed the remains to Clarion in carriages where the internment took place. The procession was met at Clarion by a large delegation of friends of the deceased, who followed to the Maple Hills Cemetery. Members of Lombard Post, G.A.R., acted as a guard of honor, and the order of Odd Fellows took charge of the last of the services at the cemetery."

Article Below: Civil War Soldiers who mustered out in 1909 and 1910 are listed.
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27 May 1910 ~ Petoskey Evening News
Obituary Below is for Alexander Worden who was included in the
​Civil War time soldier photos in the news clipping farther above.
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12 March 1910 ~ Petoskey Evening News
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28 May 1910 ~ Charlevoix County Herald (East Jordan MI newspaper)




​Article Left and continued above: Major Edward H. Green was influential in various fields and lived in Charlevoix when it was still a part of Emmet County rather than Charlevoix County.
Article Below: Wm. Henry Novinger of East Jordan died at his home on Main Street.
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18 June 1910 ~ Charlevoix County Herald (East Jordan MI newspaper)
Two Articles Below: John Vansaw of Walloon Lake buried in Clarion Cemetery had enlisted in 
Co. I, 12th Michigan Volunteer Infantry, and served for two years, being discharged for Disability.
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5 August 1910 ~ Petoskey Evening News
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10 August 1910 ~ The Petoskey Record
Two Obituaries Below:
​Aged Friends William Wallace Van Camp of Petoskey and Herman W. Morford of Brutus,
​followed one another closely into the Eternal.
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13 September 1910 ~ Petoskey Evening News
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14 September 1910 ~ The Petoskey Record
Article Below: James Rose, Civil War Prisoner, Passed Away In Emmet County
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1 February 1911 ~ The Petoskey Record
Obituary Below: David F. Nelson, Civil War Veteran and resident of Petoskey for last 10 years, dead of cancer.
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9 February 1911 ~ Petoskey Evening News

The Petoskey Record 15 March 1911 article below tells of the life of Mrs. Clayton Bixby's father, George Watson, a Civil War veteran who had passed away. Mrs. Clayton Bixby, along with her husband, owned The Fern hotel in the Village of Walloon Lake.
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15 March 1911 ~ The Petoskey Record
Obituary Below: Gilbert L. Hicks, Sr., Civil War Veteran, 
died at the Home of his son in Alanson.
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21 June 1911 ~ The Petoskey Record
The obituary below for James Buckley tells what a civic minded person he was,
by not only serving in the Civil War,
but later was Petoskey Postmaster, and also the FIRST Mayor of Petoskey.
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21 June 1911 ~ Petoskey Evening News transcribed by Marcia Maves
~ Honoring George W. Hayner and Newton A. Balch ~
(2009 In Brookside Cemetery, East Jordan, Michigan)
Hayner died on 12 August 1911 and Balch died on 25 March 1915.
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18 June 2009 ~ Petoskey News Review
Obituary Below: Alanson Civil War Veteran
Patrick VanHorn Died.
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15 February 1912 ~ Petoskey Evening News
Obituary Below:
​George O. Richardson was laid to rest.
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20 February 1912 ~ Petoskey Evening News article continued from above...
Photo Below: Marshall Magee was born 12 March 1840 and died 6 March 1912.
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18 August 2006 ~ Photo taken Boyne Valley Township Cemetery by Karla Howard Buckmaster
Marshall Magee was born 12 March 1840 in Wyoming County Arcade NY, and died 5 March 1912 in Boyne Valley Township Boyne Falls MI. From the Patrons’ Directory in the back of the 1901 Charlevoix County Plat Book: Boyne Valley Township:
"Marshall Magee...
 General Farming. Mr. Magee was born in Wyoming county NY. Was married 3 March 1865, to Miss Davis of Erie County NY They have four children now living... Section 20."
Marshall enrolled 21 September 1861 at China, Michigan, mustered in 21 September 1861 at Buffalo NY for two years. He was a private, at 21 years, complexion-dark, eyes hazel, hair dark brown, 5’7”- occupation was a farmer. Promoted to Corporal 3 May 1863, mustered out NY NY 15 July 1863.


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Three Columns Below:
Davis R. Shearer was a veteran of the Civil War and a member of Lombard Post. G.A.R.
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7 July 1894 ~ The Daily Resorter
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26 March 1912 ~ Petoskey Evening News Article continued column right...
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26 March 1912 ~ Petoskey Evening News Article continued from left column...
Biography of Civil War Veteran of Emmet County MI
~ Colonel George W. Dickinson ~
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23 May 1912 ~ Petoskey Evening News
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30 May 1912 ~ The Petoskey Record
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18 July 1912 ~ Petoskey Evening News
Obituary Below: George W. Barnes 
was Called Home.


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22 August 1912 ~ Petoskey Evening News
Obituary Below: Joseph W. Cramer, 82, of late a resident of Alanson, a veteran of the Civil War, died in Lockwood Hospital.
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2 September 1912 ~ Petoskey Evening News
Obituary Below: Emmet County Pioneer Hiram Ellsworth of Epsilon Passed Away in 1913
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9 January 1913 ~ The Petoskey Record
Although Colonel John L. Clem was from neither Charlevoix County nor Emmet County, Colonel John L. Clem of the U.S. Army was the ONLY Civil War Veteran in Active Service on 9 January 1913.
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9 January 1913 ~ The Petoskey Record Page 8
Obituary Below Two Columns:
​Gideon Wing, Veteran and Pioneer... helped build Petoskey's First School
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8 May 1913 ~ The Petoskey Record Page 1
Obituary Left: Knecht, Veteran of Civil War Passed Away
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"Knecht, Samuel Section G, Block 27, Lot 6 
Greenwood Cemetery Site (Click above to access) posted the following information:
Samuel Knecht was born in Bushkill, Pennsylvania, on May 21, 1837. On August 15, 1861, at 24 years of age, he enlisted as a Private in Company C of the 49th Ohio Infantry. He served for three years and was discharged on September 5, 1864. His disability pension record states that he suffered with kidney problems and had gravel in his bladder.
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Samuel married Mary Harley in Bucyrus, Ohio, on November 9, 1869. They had seven children together. In 1879, they came to Petoskey, and Samuel became proprietor of a restaurant. He later established an ice business, becoming a pioneer in the ice industry. He was also a member of the Lombard Post, G.A.R. He passed away on May, 1913, at the age of 75"
Obituary Below: Wabmemee's Ambrose H. Round passed away at his home at 75 years old,
​after serving in Co.K, First Michigan Engineers.
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9 March 1914 ~ Petoskey Evening News
Obituary Below:
D.C. Nettleton of Charlevoix died
as he was reading a paper he had prepared for the G.A.R.
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4 March 1916 ~ Petoskey Evening News
Obituary Below: George Hibbard Died at Home 
on Spring Street Petoskey
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6 March 1916 ~ Petoskey Evening News
Obituary Below:
Asa W. Aldrich who served
​four years in the Civil War
was the Sheriff of Emmet County in 1876-78.
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6 March 1916 ~ Petoskey Evening News
Obituary Below: East Jordan's George J. Bowen passed away
at his home.

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12 May 1916 ~ Charlevoix County Herald, East Jordan MI newspaper
Death Notice Below: James A. Waggoner died at his home in Hudson Township, Thumb Lake.
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17 July 1916 ~ Petoskey Evening News
Obituary Below: Benjamin West of Bay Township Charlevoix County 
enlisted in F. 19th regiment NY Cavalry.
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29 September 1916 ~ Petoskey Evening News
Obituary Below: Henry John Walton, a Resort Township pioneer, and a veteran of the Civil War, died 8 November 1916.
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9 November 1916 ~ Petoskey Evening News
Obituary Below: Harbor Springs Pioneer Charles A. Soper Died at Soldier's Home in Grand Rapids MI.
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3 January 1918 ~ Petoskey Evening News
Conrad Zoll SGT.CO. C 16th U.S. Infantry of Harbor Springs

25 February 1918 Conrad Zoll SGT.CO. C 16th U.S. Infantry of Harbor Springs Emmet County passed away at Soldiers' Home in Grand Rapids MI. He had owned and occupied the hotel know as the Franklin Hotel on Lake Street Petoksey MI.  He was buried in Lakeview Cemetery Harbor Springs MI.
Photo Below Left AND Obituary Right are for George W. Bump also featured in the Civil War Soldiers photos/text farther above.

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George Bump
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21 June 1918 ~ Petoskey newspaper
Obituary Below: Cornelius Wooden
​of Resort Township Died in 1919.
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5 March 1919
Obituary Below: Fred Sheldon, Civil War Veteran of Epsilon died in Petoskey Hospital in 1919.
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7 May 1919 ~ Petoskey Evening News
Obituary Below:
Amos W. Abbey Died in 1920.

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21 January 1920 ~ Petoskey Evening News
Obituary Below: Horace Pardee Answers Last Call. 
He was a Veteran printer, school teacher and maker of violins.
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2 June 1920 ~ Petoskey Evening News
From the History of Michigan published in 1915 by The Lewis Publishing Company:

"Robert Daniel Tripp was born at Petoskey, Michigan, February 6, 1878, and is a son of Daniel and Mary (Gorden) Tripp, residents of this city. His father, a native of Canada, was in his early life widely known as a soldier of fortune who passed through numerous exciting experiences in the early days of the Far West, being a chum, associate and friend of Col. William F. Cody ("Buffalo Bill"). During the Civil War he enlisted in the Eleventh Kansas Cavalry, and took a conspicuous part in the activities of that famous organization, also being active in the capture of many desperadoes and bushwhackers during the days of the black-hearted Ouantrell and the James boys."

AND

"At the outbreak of the Spanish-American War, Mr. [Robert Daniel] Tripp enlisted in the Thirty-fifth Regiment, Michigan Volunteer Infantry, continuing to serve therewith until the close of hostilities, when he returned to his home. Three months later, when President McKinley declared war upon the Philippines, he went to Chicago and enlisted in the Thirtieth United States Volunteer Infantry, and went to the islands and engaged in various battles and skirmishes.' seeing a great deal of active service.
" (See obituary for Robert Tripp below)
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22 July 1921 ~ Charlevoix County Herald (Read additional information above about Daniel Tripp)
Article Below: George Henry Hiar passed away 24 January 1922
​and was buried at Carp Lake according to his Death Certificate. 
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19 January 1922 ~ The Levering Local
Obituary Below: Francis X. Schluttenhofer Answers Call.
Located on a North Arm of
Walloon Lake Farm.
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21 April 1922 ~ Petoskey Evening News
Obituary Below Left and Article Below Center and Right: 
​Eugene R. Sly, an Emmet County Civil War veteran
was the founder of the Village of Bay Shore MI
where he established his lime business.
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Extracted and transcribed from the 29 May 1922 Petoskey Evening News by Marcia Maves
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1 June 1922 ~ Petoskey Evening News
From the History of Michigan published in 1915 by The Lewis Publishing Company (obituary above):

"Eugene R. Sly has long been well and favorably known in the business and civic activities of Northern Michigan and he has the distinction of being a veteran of the Civil War, in which he served as a gallant soldier in an Illinois regiment. He participated in many engagements and was captured at the battle of Chickamauga, after which he was held as a prisoner of war for eighteen months."
Death Notice Below: George A. Payne passed away on 24 January 1923 at his farm home.
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25 January 1923 ~ Petoskey Evening News
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1 February 1923 ~ The Levering Local
Obituary Below: P.H. Gattrell, of Levering, served three enlistments in the U.S. Army 1860 to 1865.
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11 September 1924 ~ The Levering Local newspaper
Death Notice Below: Theodore Barber of Harbor Springs 
who received a medal of honor in the Civil War passed away.
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25 December 1924 ~ The Levering Local newspaper
Christopher F. Hankey
Christopher F. Hankey enlisted for the Civil War on 2 September 1861 in the Tenth Regiment of Illinois Volunteer Infantry, and remained a part of the same throughout the remainder of the conflict. He was almost continually on the firing line and participated in all the skirmishes and battles with Sherman on the march to the sea.
Christopher F. Hankey ( 04/15/1836 - 01/22/25) a Civil War veteran, wrote a story on his entire life with a focus on the Civil War period. The Historical Document may be accessed by clicking HERE.
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Family of Christopher and Vena Remington Hankey with their children, Minnie, Nellie, Louis C., Margaret, and Guy ~ Permission to post from Bucky and Meryl Hankey
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"History of Northern Michigan" Vol. III by Powers published 1912

​Photo Below
: Miss Van Ness held the Civil War pistol of Louis Hankey.
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5 June 1952 ~ Northern Michigan Review

​Cover Below: "The Story of My Life" by C.F. Hankey may be accessed on the Greenwood Cemetery site, but clicking HERE.
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Greenwood Photo Archive Collection from Petoskey newspapers (undated)
Louis Watson "Bucky" Hankey, of Petoskey, Michigan, descends from Christopher Hankey through his great-grandfather Guy Hankey who is in the photo above as a 2 year old, and then his father Louis Watson Hankey. Bucky, in the slideshow below... Photos taken about 2016, has many of the interesting Civil War artifacts which had been passed down from his great-grandfather Christopher Hankey who was heavily involved in the Civil War.
Obituary Below: Charles S. Barton enlisted in 1863 in the 14th Michigan Artillery. Charles was doing guard duty in Washington when Lincoln was shot. He was a member of Petoskey's G.A.R.  Post, No. 13. ​
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16 February 1925 ~ Petoskey Evening
Obituary Below:
​Gideon Noel, Pioneer Resident, Died Friday.

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12 March 1925 ~ The Levering Local newspaper
Obituary Below: Widow of Civil War Veteran Died
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7 May 1925 ~ The Levering Local
Obituary Below: Charles B. Carpenter, 
enlisted 
at the age of twelve as a drummer boy 
in the 65th Illinois Volunteers.
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12 September 1925 ~ The Levering Local newspaper
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10 February 1927 ~ Petoskey Evening News
Death Notice Below: J.A.C. Rowan Petoskey's oldest resident and a Civil War veteran, 
passed awa
y.
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18 February 1927 ~ Petoskey Evening News article continued below...
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18 February 1927 ~ Petoskey Evening News article continued from above right column...
Joesph Ashby Craig Rowan, an Emmet County Civil War veteran, was a highly contributing resident in Petoskey MI. He and his wife erected a small home on the site of the Reycraft property just east of the post office, the FIRST residence to be erected on Mitchell Street. Later this property was sold and Mr. Rowan purchased what was then the City Hotel. He renamed it the Clifton House and operated it for 36 years.

NOTE: Mr. Rowan's daughter Ethel Rowan Fasquelle was instrumental in organizing Petoskey's Red Cross chapter during WWI. She was a charter member of the Petosega Chapter of the DAR. Ethel enjoyed local research and writing and compiled personal records of nearly 1200 military men.
Death Notice Below:Benjamin Franklin Rice of Harbor Springs
served as a member of Company F. First Michigan Light Artillery.
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21 November 1928 ~ Petoskey Evening News
Death Notice for Labon Miles Below: The Greenwood Cemetery stated that Labon Miles died twenty years before this publication date of 1949... thus having passed in 1929.
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9 June 1949 ~ Emmet County Graphic
Death Notice Below: G.H. Matthews, a former Petoskey resident and Civil War veteran,
​passed away in Herman, New York.
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9 November 1929 ~ Petoskey Evening News
Funeral Notice Below: Frank W. Jones was captured during the Civil War 
and kept in Andersonville Prison in Georgia.
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14 April 1931 ~ Petoskey News Review
Obituary Below: John Ward's funeral was held at Greensky Hill church, had lived at BayShore, and 
served with a New York Cavalry Regiment in the Civil War.
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28 May 1931 ~ Petoskey Evening News
Obituary Below: Marshall Swenor's obituary stated that he served in the Civil War as "John Brown" so his mother would not know that he enlisted. The 1884 Census of the State of Michigan clearly listed his name as Marshall Swenor as a soldier, so the government had him listed as a Civil War soldier... no question.

The Brothers of Robert Finch Camp No. 14 dedicated a newly place headstone of Marshall Swenor on Saturday, 13 July 2019, where Mr. Swenor is buried in the St. Francis Cemetery in Petoskey, Michigan.
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17 July 1931 ~ Petoskey Evening News
Obituary Below: James W. Hall, served in the Civil War in Company A, Eighth Michigan Cavalry advancing to Corporal and Sergeant. He was with General Sherman at the siege of Atlanta, the raid on Macon and other battles in the south. He was a prisoner in Andersonville when captured.
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23 October 1931 ~ Petoskey Evening News
Obituary Below: Joseph Cook, former Petoskey man and a Civil War veteran "Answers Final Bugle."
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5 June 1933 ~ Petoskey Evening News
Obituary Below: Death Takes Melvin Burch, Civil War Veteran at 90 Years.
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2 July 1934 ~ Petoskey Evening News
Obituary Below Left: Silas Wright, veteran of Civil War is taken by death at 91 years. 
Article Below Right: Granddaughters of Civil War veteran Silas Wright, were wearing dresses for the Centennial Celebration in Petoskey.
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2 January 1937 ~ Petoskey Evening News
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17 July 1952 ~ Northern Michigan Review


Flags of the American Civil War

The Civil War was written by Local Emmet County Pulitzer Prize Winner Bruce Catton.

Michigan's State Historical Markers include several markers which relate stories
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Michigan’s Own Civil War Hero: Brigadier General Alpheus Williams

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