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Hillsdale Heroes
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Hillsdale College in the
Civil War
Paying the Ultimate Price
Medal of Honor Winners
Moses A. Luce, 4th MI
Cornelius M. Hadley, 9th MI Cav
Frank D. Baldwin, 19th MI Won MOH twice
William G. Whitney, 11th MI
Moses Luce, 4th Michigan Infantry
Medal of Honor citaFon reads: Voluntarily returned in the face of the advancing enemy to the assistance of a wounded and helpless comrade, and carried him, at imminent peril, to a place of safety. Fought at Bull Run, Gaines Mill, Fredericksburg, Chancellorsville, GeKysburg, The Wilderness, Spotsylvania and Petersburg.
Cornelius M. Hadley - MOH
Rank and Organization: Sergeant, Company F, 9th Michigan Cavalry. Place and Date: At siege of Knoxville, Tenn., 20 November 1863. Entered Service At: Adrian, Mich. Born: 27 April 1838, Sandy Creek, Oswego County, N.Y. Date of Issue: 5 April 1898 Citation: With one companion, voluntarily
carried through the enemy's lines important dispatches from Gen. Grant to Gen. Burnside, then besieged within Knoxville, and b ro u g h t b a c k r e p l i e s , h i s comrade's horse being killed and the man taken prisoner.
Frank D. Baldwin – MOH 2xs
Rank and organization: Captain, Company D, 19th Michigan Infantry; First Lieutenant, 5th U.S. Infantry. Place and date: At Peach Tree Creek, Ga., 12 July 1864. Entered service at: Constantine, Mich. Birth: Michigan. Date of issue: 3 December 1891. Buried at Arlington National Cemetery Citation:
Led his company in a countercharge at Peach Tree Creek, Ga., 12 July 1864, under a galling fire ahead of his own men, and singly entered the enemy's line, capturing and bringing back 2 commissioned officers, fully armed, besides a guidon of a Georgia regiment.
William G. Whitney - MOH
Ø 11th Michigan Infantry Ø Won MOH at Chickamauga Ø Hillsdale College owns several
of his personal items
As the enemy were about to charge, this officer went outside the temporary Union works among the dead and wounded enemy and at great exposure to himself cut off and removed their cartridge boxes, bringing the same within the Union lines, the ammuni@on being used with good effect in again repulsing the aAack.
General Officers from Hillsdale College
Jasper Packard Protected leQ Union flank at Franklin
Clinton B. Fisk Started Fisk University in Nashville aQer the war
William Humphrey
Units serving w Distinction
4th MI Inf at The Wilderness and Gaines Mill
7th MI Inf. at Fredericksburg
24th MI at Gettysburg
1st Michigan Engineers & Mechanics in mid TN
4th Michigan Infantry
1st Michigan Engineers & Mechanics
Civil War Scene Camp Scene of the 1st Michigan Engineers
Hillsdale Boys at Gettysburg 4th MI Infantry in the Wheatfield
Hillsdale Boys at Gettysburg
24th MI Infantry – The Iron Brigade
Herbst’s Woods – action during Day One
Individuals serving w Distinction
Capt. E.P. Bates at Franklin
Don Troiani – Opdyke’s Tigers
Hillsdale’s Edward P. Bates, Captain of the 125th Ohio, helped save the day at Franklin (30 Nov 1864).
Henry W. Seage at Gettysburg Hillsdale at Gettysburg, account involving former Hillsdale student Henry Seage:
Bertera, The 4th Michigan Infantry
Sgt. Henry Magee, 4th Michigan Infantry
Walked from Pennsylvania to receive a Hillsdale education, left the College to join the Union Army (6/20/61), serving with scores of fellow students in the 4th Michigan Infantry. Later in life, he became one of the College’s Trustees, and was awarded the honorary degree Doctor of Laws in 1923.
Charles Gridley
Appointed to the Naval Academy in 1860. Commanded Admiral Dewey’s flagship USS Olympia. The College’s Coat of Arms bears an image of a seashell in remembrance of Gridley’s heroism at the Battle of Manila Bay.
Mary E. Blackmar, M.D. Graves near the hospital in City Point, VA where Mary Blackmar served
Julia Moore The Lady Principal of Hillsdale College