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A number of Michigan infantry regiments participated in the battle of Stones River, but this post is about the First Regiment of Michigan Engineers and Mechanics who happened to take an active role in combat on January 01, 1863, at Lavergne, Tennessee.
Read More “We Don’t Surrender Much”It is sobering to consider that a Scottish immigrant family paid such a high cost for the Union.
Read More Some sligh historyCharles E. Belknap’s book, The Yesterdays of Grand Rapids, is full of rich, historical vignettes. He provides glimpses of what life was like in Grand Rapids during the mid-nineteenth century.
Read More Charles E. Belknap: “The Pioneers’ Winter Food”The headlight on my Spree was dim. It flickered and bumped with the road. The intensity of the light followed the engine revs. At fifteen years old, I drove a moped to work because the government said I could.
Read More Moped rides down Leonard Street hill
Tyler Dale Gaastra 