Hillsdale

Heroes
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Hillsdale College
in the
Civil War
Paying the Ultimate Price
Medal of Honor Winners
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Moses Luce, 4
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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
br ought ba c k r epl i es , hi 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
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General Officers from Hillsdale College
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Wllllam Pumphrey
Units serving w Distinction
4
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MI Inf at The Wilderness
and Gaines Mill

7
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MI Inf. at Fredericksburg

24
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MI at Gettysburg

1
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Michigan Engineers &
Mechanics in mid TN

4
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Michigan Infantry
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Mlchlgan Lnglneers & Mechanlcs
Clvll War Scene Camp Scene of Lhe 1sL Mlchlgan Lnglneers
Hillsdale Boys at Gettysburg
4
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MI Infantry in the Wheatfield
Hillsdale Boys at Gettysburg
24
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MI Infantry The Iron Brigade
Herbst's Woods action during Day One
Individuals serving w Distinction
Capt. E.P. Bates at Franklin
Don Troiani Opdykes Tigers
Plllsdale's Ldward . 8aLes, CapLaln of Lhe 123
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Henry W. Seage at Gettysburg
Hillsdale at Gettysburg, account involving former Hillsdale student Henry Seage:
Bertera, The 4
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Michigan Infantry
Sgt. Henry Magee, 4
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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 4
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Michigan Infantry. Later in life, he
became one of the Colleges
Trustees, and was awarded the
honorary degree Doctor of Laws
in 1923.
Charles Gridley
Appointed to the Naval Academy
in 1860. Commanded Admiral
Deweys flagship USS Olympia.

The Colleges Coat of Arms bears
an image of a seashell in
remembrance of Gridleys 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
1he Lady rlnclpal of Plllsdale College