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