![]() A few months later, he mustered into the 6 th Michigan Cavalry Company “E†under General Joseph D. Kidd accepted a commission as a Captain on August 28, 1862. Kidd was more patient than his peers, however, and waited until the summer of 1862 to join the cavalry as an officer. ![]() Even though the Chancellor appealed for cooler heads, many of the fists shaking in protest soon carried rifles on the battlefield. Sumter, an angry mob of students marched towards the Chancellor’s home. The evening the Confederate army fired upon Ft. Many of them “kept their trunks packed and ready to leave at a moment’s notice,†wrote Kidd. ![]() Waiting for the Civil War to begin was “painful†for 22-year-old University of Michigan sophomore James H. Lot of 23 items belonging to Brevet Brigadier General James Harvey Kidd (1840-1913). ![]()
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