At a White House reception in 1862, President Abraham Lincoln remarked to officers from a Michigan cavalry regiment that Michigan-born troops seemed to be "ready-made" for military life. Smart-looking regiments arrived in Washington from the state on a regular basis, well trained for the trenches by the rigors of the Michigan frontier. "Lincoln's "Ready-Made" Soldiers" tells of the events and relates the stories of the Civil War from the perspective of the men of Saugatuck and Ganges Townships in western Michigan's Allegan ...
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At a White House reception in 1862, President Abraham Lincoln remarked to officers from a Michigan cavalry regiment that Michigan-born troops seemed to be "ready-made" for military life. Smart-looking regiments arrived in Washington from the state on a regular basis, well trained for the trenches by the rigors of the Michigan frontier. "Lincoln's "Ready-Made" Soldiers" tells of the events and relates the stories of the Civil War from the perspective of the men of Saugatuck and Ganges Townships in western Michigan's Allegan County. Much of the story is told in their own words, from letters sent home and published in newspapers, autobiographies, and eyewitness accounts. More than sixty additional never-before-published letters were discovered in the research for this volume, many of them rich with the emotion and detail that make the war come alive for the twenty-first-century reader. With 46 plates presenting original letters, newspaper reports, maps, military records, drawings, and photographs, "Lincoln's "Ready-Made" Soldiers" richly illustrates the Civil War experiences of the men of Allegan County, permitting them to tell their own stories with only enough framework added to flesh out the lives of the writers.
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Very Good+ 096570422X. Softcover. B&W illustrations, endnotes, bibliography, index. History of Saugatuck, MI in the Civil War; 8vo (8.8 X 5.5 X 0.8 inches); 224 pages.