McConnell of the 24th Michigan Infantry, whose regiment and the Iron Brigade to which it belonged had been forced to retreat from McPherson’s Ridge on the west side of Gettysburg. As the blue ...

For most Civil War soldiers, disease claimed the lives of men more often than actual combat did, Rembisz said. The opposite was true for the 24th Michigan Infantry, which had higher losses on the ...

Michigan played a prominent role in the war, as did the men who would eventually make their homes in the small town of Midland. In the Battle of Gettysburg from July 1to 3, 1863, the 24th Michigan ...

I recalled President Abraham Lincoln’s Gettysburg Address as I stood in ... Only about a third of the 24th Michigan’s flag remains, shot through 23 times on the battlefield where 95,000 ...