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HISTORY OF SAGINAW COUNTY.

and participated in all the exciting scenes of that event. They
then returned to Detroit, to quell the negro riots, and to protect
the frontier from rebel invasions from Canada. In September Col.
De Land was ordered with his regiment to Camp Douglas,
Chicago, and remained there in charge of the post, which contained
some 12,000 rebel prisoners, until March 18, 1864. During the
remainder of 1864-'5, the regiment was engaged in Virginia, and
participated at the final capture of Petersburg, April 3, 4, 1864.
Col. DeLand's regiment was the first to enter the city, and the
Mayor surrendered to them the keys to the City Hall. The regiment suffered severely at the " mine explosion" and at Ft. Pegoam,
where Col. De Land was left on the field, supposed to have been
mortally wounded, and was captured by the rebels. He was
exchanged in about 10 days, and lay five months in a hospital at
Annapolis, Md., and during this time was brevetted Brig. Gen.,
on account of meritorious conduct, but was unable to take an active
command in the field. At the close of the war, Col. De Land
came to East Saginaw (1865), where he subsequently established
the Daily Enterprise. From 1848 to the present time, Col.
De Land has been identified with the political interests of this
State. He entered politics as a Whig, casting his maiden vote for
Gen. Zachary Taylor. In 1854 he became an earnest advocate
of the formation of the Republican party, and participated in its
birth, at the city of Jackson, in July, 1854. On the accession of
that party to power, in the State, Col. De Land's services were
recognized by making him Clerk of the Legislature in 1865, and
Chief Clerk in the House of Representatives of 1867 and '69. In
1860, he was elected frown Jackson county to the State Senate,
and was the only member of that body to volunteer and enlist in
the cause of the Union at the commencement of the war. He
represented the Saginaw district in the State Senate during the
sessions of 1873-'4, and in 1875, was appointed collector of Internal Revenues of the 6th District of Michigan, faithfully discharging the duties of that office till June 30, 1881, when he resigned.
He was married at Jackson, Mich., May 4, 1859, to Mary E.,
daughter of L. G. Perry, of Jackson. They have five children
living and two deceased. Mrs. DeLand is a member of the Congregational Church and largely engaged in mission work. She is
also connected with the W. C. T. U., and other temperance organizations, and is a graduate of Albion College, Mich.
THE WEEKLY COURIER.
Geo. F. Lewis established the Weekly Courier in 1859, and
issued the first numober June 16, of that year. This veteran journalist of the Saginaw wasjoined in 1863 by Major E. W. Lyon.
THE DAILY COURIER
was inanllirated in M Irch, 1868, by Geo. F. Lewis. B. M. Thompsonl. E. W. Lyvn and Joseph SeaTana. In 1872 W. H. Edwards