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Sponsored Search by Ancestry. Search Records. Images: 1 Moses Wisner. First Name. Last Name. Places where they lived. Comments [hide] [show]. Login to post a comment. Preceded by 11th Governor Kinsley S. Moses Wisner 12th Governor of Michigan — Succeeded by 13th Governor Austin Blair.
Men carne in swarms. In a few days a regiment was formed. Oakland county contributed two companies, Maconib three, St. Clair two, Sanilac one and Livingston two.
It marched through Detroit in the evening Hnd about midnight took the sti-amer lof Cleveland. Detroit was iiluininated and the people seemed to be out en maase.
The friends of tliesoldiers f rom all over the state were thore. Their mothers trudged along beside them. I can recall as among the crowd. Xeither hada relativa in the regiment, but both telt the gravity of the situation and the necessity of prompt action. Both wcre intensely patriotic.
Less than two years before Judge Walker had been a candidate upon a platform vvhich denied the rightof the general govemment to coerce a state. Judge Mitchell maintained the same doctrine. Klrby Smith had m irched through Kt-ulucky and thieatened Cincinnati. The South had halt a mili ion of men in the field. The Union Unes were falling back east and west.
It seems stranger still to reflect on time's chances, aml tothink thatalthough we tiiumplied, any member of Kirby amito1! The mainicil and wounded of our army mu-t recei ve their pensions through a mun who was then Hg. The regiment paseed throuoh Ohio nest d:iy. At every station peoiile received it with cheers. Tables weiesetand covered with everything thiit could tempt the appeiite. It crossed the Ohio river at 2 in the morning. There were no welcoming crowds on the olher slde.
It was like KMlog ti om sui8hine into night. All elt that every step from thls point would e coutested. Richardson, who received his mortal wound at the battle of Antietam. He went to the war to defend and uphold the principles he had so much at heart.
Few men were more familiar than he with the causes and the underlying principles that led to the contest. He left a wife, who was a daughter of Gen. Hascall, of Flint, and four children to mourn his loss. Toward them he ever showed the tenderest regard. Next to his duty their love and welfare engrossed his thoughts. He was kind, generous and brave, and like thousands of others he sleeps the sleep of the martyr for his country. Source : Chapman Brothers.
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