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Northwest Unitarian Universalist Church*
23925 Northwestern Highway
Southfield, MI 48075
(on the southbound Lodge Service Drive,
south of 10 Mile right before Mt Vernon)

Doors open at The Northwest Unitarian Church*, in Southfield, at 7:00 p.m. for mingling with your fellow Mensans. The program begins at 8:00 p.m.
 

Michigan played a crucial role during the four years of the Civil War. The eighth most populous state in the Union when the fighting began, Michigan saw 87,000 of its citizens serve in uniform, with one in six losing their lives. Michigan's participants included soldiers, politicians and ordinary citizens, such as Julia Wheelock, “Michigan’s Florence Nightingale,” the flamboyant “Boy General,” George Armstrong Custer, drummer boy Johnny Clem (“Johnny Shiloh”), Sarah Emma Edmonds and “Michigan Annie” Etheridge, two of the few documented cases of women who fought disguised as men; and “boy soldiers” like 16-year-old George Sidman of
Owosso, one of 67 Michiganians to receive the Medal of Honor during the war.

Join us on Saturday November 19, when our guest will be Richard Bak, prolific local author of "A Distant Thunder: Michigan in the Civil War," and 25 other books covering wide variety of subjects, including Charles Lindberg's historic flight, Joe Louis, Ty Cobb and the Lincoln assassination, to name but a few.

Come and hear the story of the Wolverine State during America’s greatest conflict, filled with tales of uncommon sacrifice, epic adventure and heroic service. Doors open at 7:00 p.m. for mingling with your fellow Mensans. The program starts at 8:00.

* This is not a program of Northwest Unitarian Universalist Church.