2nd Michigan Cavalry

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Anyone have any primary accounts of the 2nd Michigan Cavalry?

 

[Stryker65]

You may find some in General Philip H. Sheridan's memoirs. Sheridan was the second colonel of the regiment, leading it through the Siege of Corinth, albeit for only four months. I can't think of any others at this moment...

 

[USS ALASKA]

https://www.armyheritage.org/wp-content/uploads/ref-bibs/civil-war-union-units/Michigan/Michigan%20Cavalry/2nd%20Michigan%20Cavalry%20Regiment.pdf

A hundred battles in the West : St. Louis to Atlanta, 1861-65 : the Second Michigan Cavalry, with the armies of the Mississippi, Ohio, Kentucky and Cumberland, under Generals Halleck, Sherman, Pope, Rosecrans, Thomas and others, with mention of a few of the famous regiments and brigades of the West

A hundred battles in the West : St. Louis to Atlanta, 1861-65 : the Second Michigan Cavalry, with the armies of the Mississippi, Ohio, Kentucky and Cumberland, under Generals Halleck, Sherman, Pope, Rosecrans, Thomas and others, with mention of a few

Electronic reproduction

archive.org

2nd Regiment Michigan Volunteer Cavalry

https://www.migenweb.org/michiganinthewar/cavalry/2ndcav.htm

HTHs,
USS ALASKA

 

[major bill]

You might be interested in this book. It has 113 listed articles about the 2nd Michigan Cavalry. Some might be letters, some just where the unit was. The articles are hit and miss. It only covers Detroit newspapers and local newspapers might have some letters and such.

This book lists 7 sources to include 2 memoirs to include Memoir of John Vogel, immigrant and pioneer. Translated by B. G. Ooserbaan and edited by H. S. Lucas. Mich History Magazine XXX (1946). If I looked I believe I have a copy of that Mich History Magazine here at home some place.

I might have more info if I looked hard enough.

 

[major bill]

This might be helpful as well.

It has 733 entries of sources and the numbers indicate the source which has information on a Michigan unit. The book was published in 1961 so does not have recent sources.

I could look up the source if you want.

 

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You might be interested in this book. It has 113 listed articles about the 2nd Michigan Cavalry. Some might be letters, some just where the unit was. The articles are hit and miss. It only covers Detroit newspapers and local newspapers might have some letters and such.
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This book lists 7 sources to include 2 memoirs to include Memoir of John Vogel, immigrant and pioneer. Translated by B. G. Ooserbaan and edited by H. S. Lucas. Mich History Magazine XXX (1946). If I looked I believe I have a copy of that Mich History Magazine here at home some place.

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I might have more info if I looked hard enough.

Do you happen to have either of these? I am doing a magazine article on a teamster driver in the 2nd Michigan cavalry so looking for refernces to teamster activty. Also, family lore says the driver killed a Confederate sergeant with his whip.

 

[major bill]

Do you happen to have either of these? I am doing a magazine article on a teamster driver in the 2nd Michigan cavalry so looking for refernces to teamster activty. Also, family lore says the driver killed a Confederate sergeant with his whip.

Yes I have all three books in my personal library. The way the Hellen H. Ellis book works is the index tells the unit and what newspaper an article was in such as 2nd Mich. Cav. Corinth , Miss. Siege of, T361. T361 is there will be a longer summery of the newspaper article and the page and column. For T361 this is the Detroit Daily Times of June 6, 1862 issue and says "Corinth, Miss.-News of the 2nd. Cav. and 10th and 14th Inf. signed Wolverine. In this case it is correspondence from someone who signed "Wolverine" who was a regular contributor to the Detroit Daily Times. So one might have to repeat this 113 times to see what the Detroit newspapers contain.

 

[major bill]

Because the 2nd Michigan Cavalry was formed in Grand Rapids another source could be the Grand Rapids newspaper. This was a daily nrwspaper but one reel of the early Civil War period has been lost. I can not remember the dates covered by the missing reel.

 

[DorwinBlack]

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Saw this one, thanks. If you could see if there is anything about teamsters in your book I would be grateful.

 

[DorwinBlack]

70 Series I Volume XXX-IV Serial 53 - Chickamauga Part IV

HEADQUARTERS SECOND MICHIGAN CAVALRY, Rankin's Ferry, October 3, 1863-8 a.m.

Major SINCLAIR:

SIR: Your orders of the 1st and 2nd have just reached me. Yesterday at 1 p.m. we received the word that the enemy were burning
the train up at Mitchell's, which is about 8 miles from this. We immediately started out, and soon after getting upon the main road we began meeting teamsters and passing broken wagons; we kept on. Expect, by the reports of the scared teamsters, soon to meet the enemy. We finally halted about 15 miles up, and sent one company on and found the infantry of Colonel McCook's command. The force of the enemy that had shown there appearing to be small, we returned to our post here to picket this place about 12 midnight.

We have nothing from our brigade, but heard of them last at Bolivar. I know of no other way than to go by Bridgeport.

L. S. SCRANTON,

Major, Commanding Second Michigan Cavalry.

 

[major bill]

A army teamster from Michigan, who supervised civilian teamsters, wrote a series of detailed letters to a Michigan nrwspaper, perhaps 3-5 long letters. I read them sometime ago and and not sure but believe the letters were published in the Adrian daily newspaper.