Civil War cemetery extraordinaire

I've mentioned Jack Dempsey's Michigan Civil War blog before, but this would be a good time to revisit it if you don't regularly. He's paying an extended visit to one section of Detroit's Historic Elmwood Cemetery.

Michigan lighthouses

Department of better late than never on my part: If you like lighthouses, cruise on over to John Dempsey's Michigan Civil War Blog for pointers to a couple of interesting stories about Michigan and its 124 beacons, many of them historic.

All Things Civil War and Michigan

Ohio has its own publication tying genealogy and the Civil War. Michigan may not match that, but John M. "Jack" Dempsey's Michigan Civil War Blog sure helps. Recently he posted about a forthcoming Civil War extravaganza, "Michigan's Fight for Freedom: The Civil War Era" (PDF), Feb. 27-May 4 at Macomb Community College, with multiple presentations getting down to as much detail as a talk about Company K of the First Michigan Sharpshooters, "the only all Native American company to serve in the war from Michigan."