History of Oakland County Michigan a narrative account of its historic progress, its people, its principal interests / compiled from the official records of the county, the newspapers and data of personal interviews, under the editorial supervision of Thaddeus D. Seeley.

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HISTORY OF OAKLAND COUNTY

ing the enemy on the IIth of that month at Rich Mountain. Thence it was
transferred to Kentucky, and did its full share in defeating a flanking
movement launched against the right wing of the Union army. At Stone
River it lost heavily, but won distinction, and at Chickamauga suffered
little short of annihilation in defense of its guns. Missionary Ridge,
Tennessee, November 25, 1863, was its last battle.
Battery H had quite a contingent from Oakland county, both of officers and gunners. Marcus D. Elliott was promoted through two grades
to the captaincy on January 8, I864; William Garner became first lieutenant May 29, i865, and William King, second lieutenant June io, i865.
This battery rendezvoused in Monroe in connection with the Fifteenth Infantry and left that place March 13, 1862 under command of Captain
Samuel DeGobyer, to report to General Halleck at St. Louis. Thence it
was ordered to New Madrid, Missouri, and afterward served in Kentucky, west Tennessee and northern Mississippi, taking an active part
in the Mississippi campaign which preceded the siege of Vicksburg, during
which Captain DeGobyer received a wound from which he died August
8th following. The operations of Battery H were conducted entirely in
Mississippi and Georgia, its last engagement being at Lovejoy's Station,
in the latter state, September I, I864.
ONE HUNDRED AND SECOND U. S. COLORED TROOPS
Forty citizens of Oakland county joined the only colored regiment
raised in Michigan during the war. It was known as the Io2d United
States Colored Troops, was raised by Colonel Henry Barus of Detroit,
and organized by Lieutenant Colonel W. T. Bennett. In March, I864, it
took the field in command of Col. H. L. Chipman, then a captain in the
regular army who had procured a leave of absence for that purpose. The
colored troops first faced the Confederates at Baldwin, Florida, in August, 1864, and decisively repulsed the attacking force of cavalrymen.
The men there proved that they were gallant and stanch fighters, and
fully sustained that reputation in the Carolinas and other states in which
they were engaged in their progress northward. The regiment was mustered out of the service with honor on the 30th of September, 1865.
MILITARY MATTERS OF LATE
Pontiac is proud of her armory, as she should be. It came after
years of effort and waiting, and is largely the result of the consistent
work of D. L. Kimball, Alderman Henry Pauli and Charles A. Fisher.
An independent company was organized soon after the Spanish-American war, in which Captain Kimball commanded a company (Thirtyfifth Michigan Infantry). It originally occupied quarters in the Bradley block on East Pike street and the third floor of the Howland building on West Pike. Along in 1907 a keen agitation was started for the
erection of a separate armory, the original plan being for the state to
appropriate $Io,ooo and the city to raise $8,000. The final decision was
$I5,ooo for the state and $6,00ooo for the city, and the bonds which were
issued for $21,000 were sold chiefly through the exertions of Alder