Come walk with me. Walk with me among the names of the volunteers of the Flint Union Grays. They formed Company F of the Second Michigan Volunteer Infantry Regiment. And as we walk, let us pause to look upon the faces of the other men and women who served and sacrificed for The Union and The Constitution, and to end the enslavement of their fellow human beings. They gaze at us across time. Let their gaze be met by ours. Let us allow our voices to whisper their names in the spring air. Let us pause to ask who they were as individual persons. Are we no different from them? Are we no less in a time of crisis? Are not there those who would deny our Civil Liberties, our right to vote, our rights of citizenship, and equality before the law?

Come walk with me among the names and faces. Let us reason together about what it means to live in a Democratic Republic. Let us remember the three women from Boalsburg, Pennsylvania, who, in October 1864, placed flowers on soldiers’ graves. Let us remember the emancipated Black men, women, and children who buried 257 Union dead at the “Martyrs of the Race Course” in Charleston, South Carolina, in a cemetery rather than leave them in a mass grave. Let us remember the others who, in the all-too-numerous wars, made the ultimate sacrifice for our freedom. Memorial Day is our day of remembrance. Let us remember. Come walk with me.

                      The Officers and Volunteers of the Flint Union Grays
                                       Captain Wm. R. Morse
1st Lieutenant Wm. Turver				2nd Lieutenant James Farrand
1st Sergeant Geo. R. Bisbey				2nd Sergeant Wm. B. McCreey
3rd Sergeant Sumner Howard			4th Sergeant Goundry Hill
1st Corporal Thomas Arnold			2nd Corporal Orville McWilliams
3rd Corporal Wm. B. Valentine			4th Corporal Edward Turvar

Wm. H. Allen	  Anson Beebs	   Irving Belsher    Chas. Beman    Milton S. Benjamin  Chas. Beman    Lafayette Bostwick    Robert S. Bostwick    Wm. I. Brinley
James Bradley    Joseph N. Bradley   S.P. Brookway    W.J. Buchanan    Wm. A. Burr

P. Calkins  T.C. Carr    C.F. Chapman    Wm. E. Christian    Thos. Chapin, Jr.
Chas. B. Collins   Levi Collins    S.B. Cummings    Merrick D. Cooley
 Dennis Dalley    Geo. Davis    Justin Deets   E.A. Dennison    Chas. Donaldson    James Duggan

Wm. Eaton    Chas. K. Eddy     Danel J. Ensign    Orlando H. Ewer  
Nelson Fletcher   Theodore Ganson    Chas. L. Gardner    Joseph George 
 John Gibson   John R. Goodrich

 Richard H. Halsted    Ansel L. Hamilton   Francis Haver Jerome Harver
 Julius A. Hine  Henry Horton    William Houghton    Issac M. Howell    Wm. S. Jewell   Phillip Kelland  Elijah C. Kelley    Chas. Kingsberry    Abram Lamb
    
Richard H. Mahon   David McConnell    Deloire McConnell    John H. McDonald
John B. Miller    Milton Miller   Chas. D. Moon    H. Olmsted

Abram Schenek   Arba Smith    Hercules Stanard  Damon Stewart   Delaney Storr  Garry Storm    Lyman Stowe    Menzo Swart

J.F. Partridge Jacob Phillips    Samuel J. Ploss    James Porter    John Porter 
Chas. H. Root   Cornelius E. Rullson   

Edgar Tibbits    John H. Tibbles    Hiram Tinney    Geo. H. Turner
Franklin Thompson (Sarah Emma Evalyn Edmonds Seelye) 

Wm. H. Underhill   John Weller   James N. Willet   Alfred W. Wyman

In memory of Cpl. George E. Fritts, Co. B 189th Inf. NY Vols
and Master Gunnery Sergeant Wayne Eugene Bunt (USMC, Retired)

Images  Repository: Images  Repository: Library of Congress Prints and Photographs Division Washington, D.C. 20540 USA http://hdl.loc.gov/loc.pnp/pp.print
https://www.loc.gov/pictures/collection/civwar/

1 Unidentified soldier in Union uniform and forage cap 

2 Drummer boy Robert H. Hendershot of Co. B, 8th Michigan Infantry Regiment in uniform with drum

3  Nine unidentified soldiers in Union uniforms and forage caps, eight with bayoneted muskets and one with a drum

4 Unidentified two soldiers in uniforms and forge caps, with sword and musket

5  Unidentified young African American soldier in Union uniform with forage cap

6 Assistant Surgeon Mary E. Walker of Medical Staff U.S. Volunteers Infantry Regiment in skirt and trousers with Congressional Medal of Honor badge

7 Unidentified nurse, probably related to Mansion House Hospital (General Hospital), Alexandria, Virginia, head-and-shoulders portrait, facing front

8  Unidentified soldier in Union uniform with musket in front of painted backdrop showing military  camp and unidentified woman, probably spouses

9 Unidentified soldier in Union uniform with two unidentified children, probably his own

10 Soldiers of the 79th New York at camp

11  Unidentified Civil War veterans of the 90th Pennsylvania Infantry Regiment with one Boy Scout at Oak Ridge to commemorate the 50th anniversary of the Battle of Gettysburg