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The Local Observer newspaper Remembering When - Our History article titled "Remembering the Civil War" (part 3) LO18 May 25, 2005. By Jack Sheridan and Jim Schmiechen with special guest historian Kit Lane. Digital files use to create this article and associated resources at 2021.72.02
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REMEMBERING THE CIVIL WAR Civil War Rally In April of 1861, when word reached Michigan about the attack on at Fort Sumter, by the army of the newly-formed Confederate States of American, citizens around the state called meetings to support the Union, and to rally those who would be soldiers in the Union cause. The citizens of Saugatuck and vicinity met at Morrison’s Hall on Monday evening, April 29. Levi Loomis, a Ganges farmer, was chairman, and James G. Butler, who was the son of Saugatuck founder, William J. Butler, was elected secretary. George Harris, whose family owned a drug store in Saugatuck; F. B. Wallin, who ran a tannery on Goshorn Creek, Elisha Mix, a farmer from Manlius Township (later to be a Civil War general) and Nelson Wade of Douglas made up the Committee on Resolutions. Wallin and F. B. Stockbridge, a local mill owner (later be a United States Senator), provided the oratory -- accompanied by a “few national songs” from the local glee club. By Kit Lane

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Wade, NelsonSheridan, John "Jack" O. 1938-Loomis, Levi 1810-1892Lane, KitHarris, GeorgeSchmiechen, James A.Butler, James Gay 1840-1916Mix, ElishaWallin, Franklin Bogue 1832-1908Stockbridge, Francis Brown 1826-1894

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