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Marshall Light Guard and First Michigan Volunteer Infantry Forming for War
Local Marshall history notes in 1861 Michigan response to Lincoln's call for 75 000 militiamen. The Marshall Light Guard became Company I of the First Michigan Infantry. Funds were raised privately to equip troops as state finances were depleted. The unit trained at Marshall before marching to Detroit for deployment under Colonel Orlando Willcox amid community support and rapid drilling led by Kinsman Hunton.
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Gettysburg
Minnesota Infantry
Battle of
Antietam
1St
Texas Infantry
27Th
Tennessee Infantry
Shiloh
Perryville
Ira Gillaspie
St. Joseph County
11Th
Michigan Infantry
Bardstown
Kentucky
Michigan
United States
Lincoln
Austin Blair
Michigan Volunteer Infantry
John Robertson
Fort Wayne
Detroit
Blair
Orlando Bolivar Willcox
Willcox
West Point
State Military Board
Marshall Light Guard
Detroit Light Guard
Jackson Grays
Coldwater Cadets
Manchester Union Guard
Stuben
Ann Arbor
Michigan Hussars
Burr Oak Guard
Ypsilanti
Hardee
Adrian
Marshall Democratic Expounder
Court House
H.J. Perrin
Light Guard
C.T. Gorham
S.A. Tyler
Marshall
1St Michigan Volunteer Infantry Regiment
Bypounder
Facey
Deville Hubbard
Kinsman Hunton
Michigan Southern Railroad
Hunton
Hubbard
1St Michigan Infantry