On July 4th, 1853, Edmund Fairfield, president of Michigan Central College, gave two speeches. The first was at the country fairgrounds and was entitled True National Greatness. The second remarks were at the laying of the cornerstone for...
In 1864, an umarried man of 29, N. W. Bassett ( Nehemiah W. Bassett) left Hudson and went south to work for the U.S. Army. He reports on camp life in Chattanooga, Tennessee. His connection to Hillsdale College is unknown and how this journal...
This handwritten diary covers the years of 1863-1864. There is much written about the Civil War as Lauretta had two brothers serving in the Union Army and was interested in Asher LeFleur, another local soldier. Asher was seriousily wounded at the...
The Amphictyon Society was a male literary society founded in 1857 at Hillsdale College. This is the first issue of a literary journal published by the society. Contributions were anonymous.
Battlefields; Military officers; Military life; Military service; Prisoner exchanges; Prisoners; Prisoners of war; War;
Captain Thomas DeKay Kimball, Jr. enlisted as a private in 1862 in Company I, 88th Indiana Infantry. He took part in the battles of Perrysville and Stone River. He was captured at the Battle of Chickamauga. He was imprisoned at Libby Prison,...
