DETROIT TO CHICAGO. 



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excuse the appearance of a bespattered traveller — brave 

 men who had gone from Ypsilanti in the early days 

 of the Rebellion, and who had learned from long cam- 

 paigning to look upon their comrades without criti- 

 cism. The brave Fourteenth Infantry started out 

 from here under Colonel Robert Sinclair, and joining 

 Sherman in Georgia took a lively part in all the move- 

 ments of his army, until the fall of Atlanta; number- 

 ing among their proudest achievements the repulse of 

 the enemy at Bentonville, North Carolina, where the 

 hurriedly constructed works of the Federals were 

 charged and taken and then regained at the point of 

 the bayonet ; and their part in the battle of Jonesboro, 

 Georgia, in 1864, which was the last of Sherman's 

 brilliant operations around Atlanta. Many of these 

 brave fellows perished on the field of battle, but 

 enough remain to keep fresh the memory of those 

 stirring days and to add the influence of their patriot- 

 ism to the young Ypsilanti. 



€igl)t2-0n)£ntl) Slag. 



Hawkine House, 

 Ypsilanti, Michigan, 

 August Sixth. 



On the previous evening I met a large number of 

 men of the town, who gave me a hearty welcome, and 

 as many of them were old soldiers, they expressed 

 their satisfaction with the purpose of my lecture, 

 favoring me with considerable enthusiasm in Union 

 Hall. 



The patriots of Michigan have many proud deeds to 

 tell ofj and are distinguished for their gallant service. 



