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Hillsdale College and the 4th Michigan Infantry at Gettysburg

This blog is an online discussion of the American Civil War. While my focus will be on topics such as Antietam, Gettysburg, the Philadelphia Brigade, Abraham Lincoln, and the 150th commemoration of the war, I hope to write on other subjects and issues that are of interest to me as well. My primary purpose is to tell the stories of the men who endured "our country's fiery ordeal," as their sacrifices defined what the war meant for its participants then and what it continues to mean for those who remember it today. "And may an Overulling Providence continue to cause good to come out of evil, justice to be done to all men where injustice has long prevailed, and finally, peace, quiet, and harmony to come out of this terrible confrontation and our country's fiery ordeal." -- Albert Champlin, 105th Ohio, Diary entry of June 19, 1864 (Western Reserve Historical Society) As many of you may know, I am a proud alumnus of Hillsdale College, a small liberal arts school nestled in the rural countryside of southern Michigan. Hillsdale has a long tradition of being a place of dedication to liberty and freedom, a tradition which stretches all the way back to the American Civil War. Before and during the war, Hillsdale was widely known as an abolitionist college, and its record of sending young men to fight in the Union army was truly remarkable. I hope to tell some of the stories of the students from Hillsdale who left to fight, as well as to write of the remarkable status Hillsdale had as a college of equality. Yesterday, while riding my bike through Gettysburg, I saw an area in southern Pennsylvania that made me think of my Alma mater many miles away... In 1861, the nation was caught up in the fervor of an oncoming war, and patriotism was the order of the day. Thousands and thousands of men from across both the North and the South left their homes, families, and livelihoods to take up arms in the burgeoning struggle. Many of those men who left were leaving behind paths of education and study. Hillsdale College was not immune from this grand exodus to the armies. Founded in 1844 by Freewill Baptists, by the start of the war, Hillsdale was a small yet thriving institution. It held a unique distinction as the first four year school in Michigan to admit students regardless of race, religion, or gender. As one historian wrote of Hillsdale in the early 1900s, "Hillsdale College has been a pioneer in the educational reforms of the age.

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Catalogue of the public school library of the city of Adrian, Michigan

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