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20th Michigan Held Reunion

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Parent Issue
Day
23
Month
October
Year
1903
Copyright
Public Domain
OCR Text

20TH MICHIGAN HELD REUNION

THE REGIMENT NEARLY HALF RAISED IN WASHTENAW

The Reunion Next Year Will be Held in Dexter and Dexter Officers Were Elected

The Twentieth Michigan Infantry held a reunion in Jackson Thursday. This regiment was raised in the counties of Washtenaw, Ingham and Jackson, about half of the 1,012 men who went out in 1862 being from this county. About 150 of the veterans gathered at the reunion and decided to hold their next reunion in Dexter, October 12, 1904, and elected Leonard Rodman of Dexter president and C. F. Bates of Dexter secretary and treasurer.

At the banquet held Thursday night, Judge C. B. Grant, of the Michigan supreme court, who went out from Ann Arbor as captain of Co. H and was promoted to major, lieutenant colonel and colonel, was toastmaster. Among those who responded to toasts was Rev. C. T. Allen, of Ypsilanti, who was introduced by Judge Grant as the fighting parson.

Among the members of this regiment who enlisted from Washtenaw county were Col. B. M. Cutcheon, Corporal John Wise, Lieut. Joshua B. Leland, Lieut. Clark S. Wortley, John Donovan, Norman Gates, Chas. Minnis, W. W. Bliss, Muson W. Bliss, Richard Krapf, Wm. P. Lovejoy, Conrad Noll, Isaac L. Savory, Daniel Sheehan, Eli S. Manley, James B. Saunders, A. M. Morton. The regiment participated in 26 engagements and lost 102 killed, 125 died of disease, 371 wounded and only 4 taken prisoners.